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Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project - O'Dea Mitre
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These relics have been carefully preserved, and are greatly admired by lovers of the fine arts, as they are splendid specimens of what Irish artists were able to turn out in the fifteenth century. They have been exhibited at the Dublin Exhibition of 1862, and at the Congress of the Archaeological Society, England, the same year. They have been worn on solemn occasions by the recent Bishops Butler and O’Dwyer. Currently the mitre and crozier are on display in Limerick’s Hunt Museum.
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Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project - Arthur Cross & Chalice
http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Diocese/ArthurCross.htm
Arthus Cross and Chalice. Though possessing only a slender income and living in poor and distressed times, Bishop Arthur enriched the cathedral with many precious gifts, some of which still remain as memorials of his generosity and munificence.
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Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project - Bishop Jeremiah Newman
http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Diocese/Jeremiah.htm
B 31 March 1926. D 3 April 1995. 7 May 1974 to 3 April 1995. As President of Maynooth College. He got an insight into University organisation which. enabled him, as Bishop of Limerick, to make a positive contribution to the development of University of Limerick. And third level education generally in Limerick. As manager and administrator of the affairs of the Diocese, he exercised his office effectively and decisively. In any list of great Bishops of Limerick Diocese, the name of Dr Jeremiah Newman woul...
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Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project - Archdeacon Begley's History of the Diocese
http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Diocese/Begley.htm
Archdeacon Begley's History of the Diocese. Preface to the 1993 Reprint by Bishop Jeremiah Newman. The time interval between the appearance of the volumes indicates the extent of the work put into preparing them by their author. His own Preface to the first volume gives at least some idea of the pains which lie took to consult every source available to him, particularly in Dublin and London, because this history is not only an ecclesiastical but also a civil one of the Diocese of Limerick. Begley's is an...
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Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project - The Chapter of Limerick
http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Diocese/Chapter.htm
1983 Code of Canon Law. The Purpose of a Chapter. In Ireland, because of its general monastic structure of organisation, all the earlier chapters were monastic. It is not until the middle of the 12th century that Secular Canon as they existed on the Continent are clearly recognised. In fact, practically all the Irish Secular (Cathedral) Chapters were founded during the second half of that century or the beginning of the 13th. The Chapter of Limerick. At the time of their original historical inception, th...
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Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project - Brief History
http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Diocese/BriefHyDiocese.htm
Thanks to Fr. John Leonard for this Brief History of the Diocese of Limerick which was printed in the service booklet for the installation of Bishop Donal Murray in March 1996. A window in the Abbey Church, Adare, Co. Limerick. Among the tasks of church building, parish re-organisation and spiritual renewal, Bishop O'Dwyer was active in establishing Mary Immaculate College, a college for teacher education.
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Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project -Black Book of Limerick
http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Diocese/BlackBook.htm
Black Book of Limerick. At the time of the Reformation the book passed into the hands of the Protestant bishops. There are some documents inserted in the end of it by Bishop Adams (1604-1625). It is said to have been in the possession of Bishop Webb, who died a prisoner about 1642. The Procuration (see left column) Rolls given at page 136 of the Black Book contain the fullest and most valuable list of churches of the diocese before the Reformation.
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Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project - Former Bishops of Limerick
http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Diocese/FormerBishops.htm
John Magee, Bishop of Cloyne and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Limerick.
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Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project - Bishop Cornelius O'Dea
http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Diocese/ODea.htm
Three valuable artefacts from Bishop O’Dea exist to this day, having been handed down through his successors. The three items are a Mitre. And a manuscript now titled the Black Book of Limerick.
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Limerick Diocesan Heritage Project - Ardagh Chalice
http://www.limerickdioceseheritage.org/Diocese/Ardagh%20Chalice.htm
There is nothing known of the history of this precious relic of a lost art, or how it came to be buried in the Rath. It is suggested that it is one of the valuable cups that were stolen from Clonmacnois, in the year 1125, by a Limerick Dane, who was captured and hanged the following year.
