Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches

Well, at least this much has survived.

The inscription on the right hand side of the ceiling is indeed from paslm 83 ( Quam delicta tabernacula tua Domine virtutum ..how beautiful art thy dwellings Lord God of hosts..) and the angels do carry the instruments of the passion.

The prototype for the Baptism of Our in the Jordan is Juan Fernandez de Navarrete, “El Mudo”‘s picture of 1565 in the Prado.

Are the panels in the spandrels depictions from the life of St. Patrick, possibly taken from the Confessions of St. Patrick (the dream, the consecration by St. Germain l’Auxerrois, the mission from Pope Celestine)?

There seems to be some water ingress.

Surprising that the inscriptions under St. Luke’s account of the dream of St. Joseph and the flight into Egypt should be in English!

Thanks Fearg for the splendid pictures.