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2 unusual facts about St Mary's Pro-Cathedral


Dublin Cathedral

St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, the Roman Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Dublin

St Mary's Pro-Cathedral

Whereas up to 1973, those ceremonies were exclusively denominational, the ceremonies for the inaugurations of President Childers in 1973, President Ó Dálaigh in 1974 and President Hillery in 1976, were multidenominational, with representatives of the Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Methodist and the Jewish faith taking part in the ceremony.


Am Mellensee

They will provide the bread for the Communion wafers during the Eucharist for Papal Masses at Erfurt's Cathedral and in Berlin's Olympic Stadium to be celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI for his September 2011 visit- his third as Pope- to Germany.

Angers Cathedral

However, Geoffroy de Tours, the Bishop of Angers from 1081 to 1093, ordered the reconstruction of the Cathedral, which continued under the supervision of his successors, Renaud de Martigné (1102–1125), Ulger (1125–1148) and Normand de Doué (1148–1153).

Anne of France

She makes a fleeting appearance in Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris: we are told that in December 1481, the Archdeacon of Josas, Claude Frollo, unsuccessfully attempts to block her visit to the cathedral cloister because she is a woman, then refuses to attend on her visit.

BBC Radio Leicester

This new centre is adjacent to the medieval Guildhall and Cathedral and includes many aspects of Leicester's history including Victorian tiles and an Undercroft (first revealed in 1841) with remains dating to Roman times.

Big Egg Wrestling Universe

The event featured representatives from joshi promotions All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), GAEA Japan, Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (JWP), and Ladies Legend Pro Wrestling (LLPW), as well as puroresu promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (which had a large women's division at the time).

Cathedral Prep Events Center

In its inaugural game on September 10, 2010, the Cathedral Prep Ramblers defeated the Central Tech Falcons 55-9.

Choral scholar

This is a common practice in the UK at schools attached to cathedrals where the choir is the Cathedral Choir, and at Oxford and Cambridge University Colleges, many of which have famous choirs.

Chronicles of Barsetshire

The Chronicles of Barsetshire (or, in more recent UK usage, the Barchester Chronicles) is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire (located approximately where the real Dorset lies) and its cathedral town of Barchester.

Diocesan Synod

The House of Clergy consists of clergy representatives chosen by the clergy in each Deanery Synod, together with a number of ex officio members -- any other assistant bishops working in the diocese; the dean of the cathedral; the archdeacons of the diocese; the clergy elected to the General Synod for the diocese (known as Proctors to the Lower House of Convocation), and some others.

Edwin Grienauer

A tabernacle showing the Annunciation to Mary is in the archives of St Stephan's Cathedral.

Évry Cathedral

Évry Cathedral of the Resurrection (Cathédrale de la Résurrection d'Évry) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the new town of Évry (Essonne), France, designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta.

Frederick Whitehead

Although he predominantly painted landscapes, he also concentrated occasionally on religious architecture, such as St Mary’s, Warwick, and Gloucester Cathedral.

Henry Cosgrove

In 1903 he was quoted in the national media calling Davenport "the wicked city of its size in America" because of its notorious Bucktown District, an area of speakeasies and houses of prosititution, which were down the hill from the cathedral.

Henry of Stolberg-Wernigerode

Count Henry was canon of the cathedral in Halberstadt, Knight of the Prussian Royal Order of the Black Eagle and a member of the Order of Saint John.

Jaime Nunó

There he demonstrated his skill as a soloist in the city cathedral, for which he gained a scholarship to study with the composer Saverio Mercadante in Italy.

Juan de Anchieta

He held various church benefices, from 1518 as Abbot of Arbós, town located at the province of Tarragona, as a chaplain at Granada Cathedral, spending his final years in a Franciscan convent he had founded in Azpeitia.

Larry Martyn

Martyn died on 7 August 1994 at home in St Mary's Bay, Kent, and was survived by his wife Hilary and their two daughters.

Lichfield Heritage Centre

The museum is located on the south side of the market square on the second floor of St Mary's Church in the centre of Lichfield, Staffordshire in the United Kingdom.

Live at New Birth Cathedral

Byron Cage: Live At New Birth Cathedral (a.k.a. Prince of Praise) is the solo, self-titled, debut album by Byron Cage, released in 2003 on Gospocentric Records.

Lombez Cathedral

Lombez Cathedral (Cathédrale Sainte-Marie de Lombez) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, in Lombez.

Luçon Cathedral

Luçon Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Luçon) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, in Luçon in the Vendée.

Maasin

The diocese comprises the entire province of Southern Leyte, and the towns of Matalom, Bato, Hilongos, Hindang, Inopacan and Baybay in the province of Leyte, with the Maasin Parish Cathedral as the seat of the diocese.

Mâcon Cathedral

Mâcon Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Vincent de Mâcon) is a Roman Catholic church and former cathedral in Mâcon, Burgundy, France.

Maginardo

Maginardo's second great project was the addition of a chapel dedicated to Saint Donatus to the side of the cathedral.

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Other teaching hospitals which are part of the same NHS trust are: St Mary's Hospital, Manchester (founded 1790), the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital (1814), and the University Dental Hospital of Manchester (1884); Royal Manchester Children's Hospital (1829).

Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour

He was named canon of the cathedral of Nîmes in 1822, became known as a preacher, and contributed to L'Avenir.

Michael Mulhall

He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 21 from Archbishop Luigi Ventura, with Archbishops Terrence Prendergast, S.J., and Bishop Nicola De Angelis, C.F.I.C. serving as co-consecrators, at St. Columbkille Cathedral.

Old St. Mary's

Old Saint Mary's Cathedral, cathedral in San Francisco, California, United States

Penwortham Priory

A small castle was built on the hill in Penwortham overlooking the river crossing and the castle mound (the motte) can still be seen behind St Mary's church.

Pygostyle

The term must have been known as early as around 1400 AD, when a carpenter had been contracted to provide new choir stalls for St Mary's Church, Nantwich.

Rajdeep Sardesai

The son of the Indian Test cricketer Dilip Sardesai, he completed his schooling up to ICSE from the Campion School in Bombay, did two years of ISC in the Cathedral School, Mumbai, and completed a bachelor's course in Economics from St. Xavier's College.

Raphael Cotoner

It was during Raphael's tenure as Grand Master that the Italian Baroque artist Mattia Preti started work in Valletta's St. John's Co-Cathedral.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Malta

There are two cathedrals in the diocese: The Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Paul's, in Mdina, and St. John's Co-Cathedral, located in Valletta.

Rossano Gospels

The Rossano Gospels, designated by 042 or Σ (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 18 (Soden), at the cathedral of Rossano in Italy, is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript Gospel Book written following the reconquest of the Italian peninsula by the Byzantine Empire.

Sacconi Quartet

They also returned to the Wigmore Hall to perform Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro with the Southbank Sinfonia, a performance repeated at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Canterbury Cathedral with Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Samuel Myerscough

Bernard Vaughan S.J., gave up his job at the Cathedral and Dublin where he taught music in Loretto Abbey Rathfarnham.

Shalini Ganendra

Shalini Ganendra attended National Cathedral School, Washington D.C. and then Phillips Exeter Academy boarding, from where she graduated in 1982 with High Honours and as a National Cum Laude Scholar.

Spittal, Pembrokeshire

Its name is a corruption of the word Hospital, which is also the root of such names as Spitalfields, London, Spital, Merseyside, Spital-in-the-Street, Lincolnshire, etc: the village possessed a hospitium (place of accommodation for pilgrims) belonging to the Cathedral of St David's.

St Mary's Church, Ickworth

The 6th Marquess (d. 1985) was buried in Menton (France) for 25 years until the 8th Marquess had him reinterred in the vault of Ickworth Church in October 2010.

St Mary's College, Wellington

Part of the land on which the school is situated was donated by Lord Petre, the 11th Baron Petre (1793-1850), who was a director of the New Zealand Company and whose family seat Thorndon Hall in Essex was an important centre of Catholic Recusancy from the time of Queen Elizabeth I.

St Mary's Convent High School, Hyderabad

: For a history of the parent school, see History of St Bonaventure's High School

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Monmouth

From 1835 to 1851 the Roman Catholic minister in Monmouth was Thomas Burgess who went on to be the Bishop of Clifton.

St Paul's Church, Camden Square

It and its parish are part of the St Pancras team of parishes, which also includes St Pancras Old Church, St Michael's Church, Camden Town, and St Mary's Church, Somers Town.

St. Basil's Church

Saint Basil's Cathedral, a Russian Orthodox cathedral erected on the Red Square in Moscow

St. Dunstan's, Canterbury

Another of the windows commemorates the visit of Pope John Paul II to Canterbury to pray with the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury at the site of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

St. Ignatius Cathedral, Shanghai

The cathedral was featured in the opening scenes of Steven Spielberg's 1987 film Empire of the Sun.

Tourism in the Basque Autonomous Community

This is the location of the church of San Miguel, home to the patron saint, the White Virgin, and Santa María Cathedral, whose restored works which are open to the public inspired the writer Ken Follett to write his novel World Without End in 2007.

Vauluisant Abbey

The energetic Cistercians of Vauluisant produced more than the abbey needed; the surplus was sold in the market towns of Troyes and Provins, where the abbots retained domiciles, and at the cathedral town of Sens.

Wenceslas Munyeshyaka

The military tribunal found Munyeshyaka guilty of rape and of aiding militias in the killing of hundreds of Tutsi refugees at the Holy Family Cathedral in downtown Kigali, where he was head priest.

Yurimaguas

Yurimaguas boasts a magnificent Cathedral built by the Passionist Order, and modeled after the Cathedral in Burgos, Spain.


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