reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches
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I wonder does the Chief Fire Officer in Wexford realize that he has a potential prairie fire on hands with all that pampas grass and if he does what does he intend doing about it?
@Praxiteles wrote:
I wonder does the Chief Fire Officer in Wexford realize that he has a potential prairie fire on hands with all that pampas grass and if he does what does he intend doing about it?
Perhaps the pastor plans to start next year’s Easter Fire in the pampas grass. Let us hope that no one beats him to it.
I should have thought that the pampas grass constituted a distinct fire hazzard. Where are the authorites when you need them?
@Fearg wrote:
Monaghan:
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That’s from way before Bishop Duffy – that’s probably the 1950s
Monaghan was hacked twice – once in the late 60s / early 70s and then later by Duffy.@Paul Clerkin wrote:
That’s from way before Bishop Duffy – that’s probably the 1950s
Monaghan was hacked twice – once in the late 60s / early 70s and then later by Duffy.As far as I know that photo was taken in the 1920s or 30s.
I notice the stations on the N Transept wall – they are gone now as well?
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
That’s from way before Bishop Duffy – that’s probably the 1950s
Monaghan was hacked twice – once in the late 60s / early 70s and then later by Duffy.Utterly glorious!
What a crime to have reduced it to the wreck it now is.
@Praxiteles wrote:
The remains of two Irish medieval Baptismal Fonts stored in the Cathedral at Roscarbery
What is the detritus sitting atop the bigger one?
One might have expected the fonts to have been mounted on some kind of stands. Plenty of fonts in Britain and Gaul to have some idea as to how they may have looked in situ once upon a time. How much imagination does that take?
Rogier van der Weyden’s Altarpiece of the Seven Sacraments dating from 1445 in which the Sacramnet of Baptism is shown being administered in the left hand panel.
Van der Weyden places the font in the first chapel on the North side ofthe nave.
Here we have a depiction of the Baptism of Clovis in 496 as depicted in the Les Grandes Chronique de France c. 1480. The Baptism of Clovis represented one of the important moments in the development of Western civilization in that he was the first fot he Frankish kings to have been baptized into orthodox Catholicism rather than into Arianism.
Pugin’s font at St Michael’s, Gorey, has been standing outside the sacristy in the weather for who knows how long. It is a beautifully simple but harmoniously proportioned work similar to a later Pugin font in St Mary’s, Brewood, Staffordshire. Its replacement, a Belgian font from the late 1850s, can be seen in the grounds of the presbytery.
Gianfrancesco Penni’s depiction of the Baptism of Constantine in 326. The fresco is located in the Sala di Constantino in the Apostolic Palace and forms part of Raphael’s cicle of frescoes in the Stanze. It was completed by Penni bewteen 1517 and 1524 following Raphael’s death. The scene is set in the Baptiestery of the Lateran. Pope St Sylvester is depicted as Pope Clement VII.
The Baptism of Constantine marked the definitive emergence of Christanity from the catacombs and the infusion of late antique culture with a new vigour.
@Antipodes wrote:
Pugin’s font at St Michael’s, Gorey, has been standing outside the sacristy in the weather for who knows how long. It is a beautifully simple but harmoniously proportioned work similar to a later Pugin font in St Mary’s, Brewood, Staffordshire. Its replacement, a Belgian font from the late 1850s, can be seen in the grounds of the presbytery.
Now, I wonder what Wexford County Council’s Conservation officer is doing about that?
Some Pics of Letterkenny Cathedral (probably the least talked about in the entire country, yet perhaps one of the most intact!)
“south” transept window
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Some Pics of Letterkenny Cathedral (probably the least talked about in the entire country, yet perhaps one of the most intact!)
Wonderful! What an extraordinary building! And so well kept and preserved!
@ake wrote:
Wonderful! What an extraordinary building! And so well kept and preserved!
Indeed it is – apart from this silly glass porch:
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It is indeed a great survivor. The Stations of the Cross look interesting. Any closer shots?
Note alos that the gas lamps along the sides have been converted to electricity. Similar ones were in Cobh Cathedral but they disappeared and then the wooden partitions disappeared during the “restoration”.
@Praxiteles wrote:
It is indeed a great survivor. The Stations of the Cross look interesting. Any closer shots?
Note alos that the gas lamps along the sides have been converted to electricity. Similar ones were in Cobh Cathedral but they disappeared and then the wooden partitions disappeared during the “restoration”.
and in Derry, nasty cheap imitations of these were installed. they would be more at home in a McDonalds..
@Fearg wrote:
Indeed it is – apart from this silly glass porch:
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UGH!!
idiots.
What stone are the nave piers of?
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