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St. John's Cathedral (Irish: Ardeaglais Naomh Eoin) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Limerick, Ireland. Designed by the architect Philip Charles Hardwick, ground was broken in 1857 and the first Mass celebrated on 7 March 1859. It replaced a chapel founded in 1753.
purported Augustinian Canons Regular — possible reference to Keynsham, Somerset, England, which had property in County Limerick Kynnythin: Lehense Monastery ≈: Carmelite Friars — possible duplication of reference to Barvegalense (Milltown) possibly Barvegalense (Milltown) Limerick Crutched Friars Priory Hospital Crutched Friars
The Anglo-Normans built the first church in Limerick dedicated to Michael the Archangel, which stood on an island between Englishtown and Irishtown, in an area outside the city gates. Saint Michael's is first referred to in the 1205 "Black Book of Limerick". It was originally a prebendal church, but by 1418 was attached to the Archdeaconry of ...
Augustinian Abbey, with the castle of the Fitzgeralds and the Franciscan Abbey, 1842. Adare's Augustinian Priory was founded in 1316 by John FitzThomas FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Kildare. The Priory was suppressed in the reign of Henry VIII. In 1807, the church of the Priory was given to the local Church of Ireland congregation as the parish ...
Limerick Cathedral (Saint Mary's) is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and was founded in 1168 and is the oldest building in Limerick which is in use. [1] It has the only complete set of misericords left in Ireland. [2] In 1111, the Synod of Ráth Breasail decided that "Saint Mary's church" would become the cathedral church of the Diocese of ...
One of the earliest recorded nunneries in Ireland, [5] it is first mentioned in 1298, and was founded on land donated by John FitzThomas of Connello (who died in 1261). [4]: 43 fn.3 While there are few details, it appears in court and land records over the succeeding centuries, and at Dissolution of the Monasteries during the Reformation in Ireland, in 1541, a valuation is given.
The Diocese of Limerick (Irish: Deoise Luimnigh) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in mid-western Ireland, one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly. The cathedral church of the diocese is St John's Cathedral in Limerick. The incumbent bishop of the diocese is Brendan Leahy.
Independent Augustinian communities are Roman Catholic religious communities that follow the Augustinian Rule, but are not under the jurisdiction of the Prior General of the Augustinian hermits in Rome. They include the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine, the Augustinian Recollects, the Discalced Augustinian, and