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Saint Patrick, woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle. In Christianity, certain deceased Christians are recognized as saints, including some from Ireland.The vast majority of these saints lived during the 4th–10th centuries, the period of early Christian Ireland, when Celtic Christianity produced many missionaries to Great Britain and the European continent.
Augustinian friars under ‘The Order of St Augustine’ first established in Ireland in the 13th Century, during the medieval period. Dublin at this time, was now an Anglo-Norman walled town but was in origin a Viking settlement. Augustinian ‘Rule’ (way of life) was present in Dublin from at least 1146.
The church is named after St. Augustine and St. John the Baptist, but is popularly known as John's Lane Church, from its location at the corner of John's Lane. [6] The church steeple is the highest steeple in the city, [7] standing at over 200 feet (61.0 m). It was originally not designed to hold bells, but a spiral staircase was added later to ...
Bl. Edmund Ignatius Rice, the first Irish-born Catholic to be beatified after the English Reformation.. This page is a list of post-reformation saints, blesseds, venerables, and Servants of God in Ireland, as recognised by the Roman Catholic Church.
Incunabulum of De mirabilibus published at Utrecht in 1473 or 1474 by the printers Nicolaes Ketelaer [fr] and Gerard de Leempt. De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae is a Latin treatise written around 655 by an anonymous Irish writer and philosopher known as Augustinus Hibernicus or the Irish Augustine. The author's nickname is in reference to the philosopher Augustine of Hippo. This pseudo ...
Augustine of Canterbury (early 6th century – most likely 26 May 604) was a Christian monk who became the first archbishop of Canterbury in the year 597. He is considered the "Apostle to the English".
St Nicholas' National School was established by the Earl of Dunraven in 1814, becoming a national school in 1862. [4] It is a co-educational primary school with a Church of Ireland ethos. The school was originally housed in the refectory of the friary. In early 2007, construction began on a new school building behind the original monastery. [5]
St. Finnian imparting his blessing to the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. The Twelve Apostles of Ireland (also known as Twelve Apostles of Erin, Irish: Dhá Aspal Déag na hÉireann) were twelve early Irish monastic saints of the sixth century who studied under St Finnian (d. 549) at his famous monastic school Clonard Abbey at Cluain-Eraird (Erard's Meadow), now Clonard in County Meath.