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2 unusual facts about St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Drogheda


Bring Me the Head of Oliver Plunkett

Two runaway orphans, Pat and Sean, witness the theft of Saint Oliver Plunketts head from St. Peter's Church where it was on display for a forthcoming papal visit.

Charles Wilmot, 1st Viscount Wilmot

Wilmot married, secondly, Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Colley of Castle Carbury and widow of Gerard Moore, 1st Viscount Moore of Drogheda, who died in 1627; she survived till 3 June 1654, being buried on 3 July with her first husband in St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Drogheda; her correspondence with the parliamentarians during the Irish wars gave James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde some trouble.


1685 in art

Pietro Paolo Cristofari, Italian artist responsible for a number of the mosaics in St. Peter's Basilica (died 1743)

Augustinergasse

In the Middle Ages, it was a small street within the town of Zürich, leading from St. Peterhofstatt at the St. Peter church, passing the former Augustine monastery below the Lindenhof hill, towards the Kecinstürlin gate at the southern Fröschengraben moat.

Balsfjord

Their voyage was also noteworthy as the first transatlantic voyage sailing directly from Europe to the port of Chicago (other previous transoceanic ships disembarked first at Quebec, Canada.) After arriving in Chicago, the mindekirken colonists traveled overland to the area of St. Peter, Minnesota, where they remained during the "Dakota War of 1862".

Baltray

Bus Éireann route 189 serves Baltray several times a day (but not Sundays) linking it to Drogheda, Duleek, Ashbourne, Termonfeckin and Clogherhead.

Baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège

Lasko, Peter, Ars Sacra, Penguin History of Art (now Yale)

Bras d'Or Lake

The largest communities located on Bras d'Or Lake are the villages of Baddeck, Eskasoni, Little Bras d'Or, St. Peter's, and Whycocomagh.

Brendan Kennelly

No stranger to literary contention, his detractors have seized in particular on works such as “Cromwell”, about the English Roundhead and Puritan whose army sacked the town of Drogheda and slaughtered its Royalist garrison and townspeople in 1649.

Bus Éireann

Additional services within Ireland include city services in Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford and town services in Athlone, Balbriggan, Drogheda, Dundalk, Navan and Sligo.

Caspar Henry Borgess

In 1859, he was made rector of St. Peter's Cathedral in Cincinnati, and remained there until he was consecrated titular Bishop of Calydon and administrator of Detroit on April 24, 1870.

Church of St. Peter, St. Albans

In the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, Ricky and Bianca's second wedding was filmed inside and outside this church.

Thomas Baskerfield's drawings of 1787 give an impression of what the church was like in its essentials for so many centuries.

County of Flanders

The Christianisation of the population was mainly the work of missionaries like Amandus (St. Bavo's Abbey and St. Peter's Abbey in Ghent) and Eligius (coastal region and Antwerp).

Duleek railway station

A rail replacement bus was introduced in 1958 and this route continues to this day as Bus Éireann route 188 (Drogheda-Duleek-Slane-Navan with a latter extension to Trim).

Dunboyne

The Division consisted nine brigades: 1st Brigade (south Meath & north Kildare); 2nd (Navan & Trim); 3rd (Kells, Virginia & Mullagh); 4th, Delvin; 5th (Mullingar & north Westmeath); 6th, Edenderry; 7th (Naas & south Kildare); 8th Fingal; and 9th (Drogheda & south Louth).

Francisco de Tutavilla y del Rufo, Duque de San Germán

He conquered in 1674 Bellegarde Fort, 42° 27′ 31″ N, 2° 51′ 33″ E, French since the Peace of the Pyrenees of 1659 between France and Spain, but it was taken back by the mercenary Troop Commander Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, (Heidelberg, Germany, 1615 - Battle of the Boyne, near Drogheda, Ireland, 1 July 1690 1690) on behalf of king Louis XIV of France.

George Francis Rayner Ellis

In 2005 Ellis appeared as a guest speaker at the Nobel Conference in St. Peter, Minnesota.

Guillaume Desautels

The Catholic knights won the field and thus saved Cluny, which had been (until St. Peter's in Rome just recently built) the greatest church in Western Christendom from the hands of the Protestants — only to be destroyed 200 years later by the republican mobs of the French Revolution.

James M. McPherson

Born in Valley City, North Dakota, he graduated from St. Peter High School, and he received his Bachelor of Arts at Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, Minnesota) in 1958 (from which he graduated magna cum laude), and his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1963.

Jussi Björling

Björling's name is now used with the prestigious Jussi Björling Music Scholarship at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.

Laurence J. Peter

It is a heavily quoted principle at the Marshall School of Business.

In 1966, Peter moved to California, where he became an Associate Professor of Education, Director of the Evelyn Frieden Centre for Prescriptive Teaching, and Coordinator of Programs for Emotionally Disturbed Children at the University of Southern California.

Laytown

Bus Éireann route 190 provides several daily services to/from Drogheda via Bettystown and Mornington.

Martin Beckman

His plans of St. Peter's, Castle Cornet, and the Bouche de Vale, with water-colour sketches, are in the British Museum.

Nadur Carnival

Besides the religious feast of St. Peter & St. Paul, known locally as "L-Imnarja" held on the 29th June and which lasts a whole week, Nadur is also famous for its annual revelry held on the 5 days preceding Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.

Navan railway station

A rail replacement bus was introduced in 1958 and this route continues to this day as Bus Éireann route 188 (Navan-Slane-Duleek-Drogheda with a latter extension to Trim).

Priscilla and Aquila

The fact that she is always mentioned with her husband, Aquila, disambiguates her from different women revered as saints in Catholicism, such as (1) Priscilla of the Roman Glabrio family, the wife of Quintus Cornelius Pudens, who according to some traditions hosted St. Peter circa AD 42, and (2) a third-century virgin martyr named Priscilla and also called Prisca.

Raffaele Farina

He received his episcopal consecration on the following 16 December from three cardinals, fellow Salesian Tarcisio Bertone as principal consecrator, with James Stafford and Jean-Louis Tauran as co-consecrators, in St. Peter's Basilica.

Resistance during the Holocaust

Although Pope Pius XII did not publicly speak out against the murder of the Jews during the Holocaust, the Vatican did take action to save many Jews in Italy from deportation, including sheltering several hundred Jews in the catacombs of St. Peter's Basilica.

Siege of Port Toulouse

The Siege of Port Toulouse took place between May 2–10, 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Port Toulouse (present-day St. Peter's, Nova Scotia) in the French colony of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) from its French defenders during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.

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. Peter, Syburg

The simple cross in white Carrara marble, the oldest artefact in the church, can therefore be dated to the end of the 16th century.

St. Peter's Brewery

A gluten free beer, G-Free TM was launched late in 2007 and is approved and licensed by Coeliac UK.

St. Peter's Church, Barnburgh

was returning home late on the heavily wooded track from Doncaster through Sprotborough and High Melton.

The Church of St Peter is found at the centre of the village of Barnburgh, near Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, and serves the communities of Barnburgh and Harlington.

St. Peter's Church, Copenhagen

With the increasing tensions between Denmark and Germany in the middle of the 18th century, culminating in the First Schleswig War from 1848 to 1850, the church lost its special position and therefore members, prestige and financial support.

St. Peter's Church, Jaffa

The church was built in 1654 in dedication to Saint Peter over a medieval citadel that was erected by Frederick II and restored by Louis IX of France at the beginning of the second half of the thirteenth century.

St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia

The chiefs of eight American Indian tribes, who died from Yellow fever while visiting Philadelphia in 1793 to meet with President George Washington.

St. Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool

In the churchyard of St Peter's is the grave of Eleanor Rigby, who became the subject for one of The Beatles' songs.

St. Peter's College of Misamis Oriental

Years later, Dr. Natividad J. Mofar the Dean of College with some of the staff inspired by her interest to improve the number of population annually conducted Career Guidance to the different graduating high school students in the Eastern part of Misamis Oriental which has drawn more students to enroll to the six different courses that this school has offered.

In January 1950, in the Municipality of Balingasag, province of Misamis Oriental, the couple Mr. Miguel D. Paguio and Mrs. Escolastica Punongbayan Paguio, established St. Peter’s College an Institution of learning.

St. Peter’s Church, Karachi

The church will cater to the people of Akhtar Colony, Mahmudabad, Kashmir Colony and Manzoor Colony.

St. Stephen's Church, St. Albans

Although there are now some questions about the exact date of its foundation (and the date of Abbot Ulsinus), it is reasonably clear that, together with St Michael's and St Peter's churches, the church was built at about that time to receive pilgrims and to prepare them for their visit to the shrine of St Alban within St Albans Abbey.

Stephen Harriman Long

Major Long's 1823 expedition up the Minnesota River (then known as St. Peter's River), to the headwaters of the Red River of the North, down that river to Pembina and Fort Garry, and thence by canoe across British Canada to Lake Huron is sometimes confused with his initial expedition to the Red River in modern-day Texas and Oklahoma.

Subdeacon

Traditionalist Catholic organizations such as the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest and the Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney have been permitted to retain the subdiaconate, as well as other pre-1970 forms of the Roman Rite liturgy.

Thomas Sim Lee

They founded the St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Petersville, Maryland.

Traffic Blues

The series was filmed over six months, putting the Dublin Metropolitan division based in Dublin Castle, the Louth division taking in stations in Drogheda and Dundalk and the Donegal division focusing on Burnfoot and Letterkenny areas in the centre of attention.

William James Gilbert Allen

He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, the son of Alfred B. Allen and Delores M. Holmes, and was educated there, at St. Peter's College and at the University of Saskatchewan.

William McMahon

Sekuless, Peter (2000), 'Sir William McMahon,' in Michelle Grattan (ed.), Australian Prime Ministers, New Holland, Sydney, New South Wales, pages 312–323.

Yemi Adenuga

Yemi's work with AWDI supports Women refuges in Ireland including Drogheda Women Refuge and Meath Women's refuge through fundraising programmes to help female victims of domestic violence and their children, and building on its current leadership project, to educate, give Moral support to, and develop women for leadership positions.


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