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Post by hibernicus on Jun 6, 2015 22:29:37 GMT
I was in Limerick city recently and looked in at the Crescent Church now run by the ICKSP. It is a very handsome church, and the colour scheme is very subtle. The wall paintings of Jesuit saints look as if they have been re-done recently - the south side of the church looks as though it has been repainted but the north side is still peeling. Clearly a work in progress, though it seems to be progressing well. I dropped a few euro in the donation box. Whatever you think of it, it's an improvement on the plan to make it a swimming pool!
Also looked in at St Alphonsus', the Redemptorist church - the style is very noticeably late mediaeval, and there are some interesting choices of saints (Margaret of Scotland). The shrine of St Gerard Majella has some nice mosaics. The former confraternity room now houses the public toilets. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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Post by hibernicus on Aug 30, 2016 20:09:03 GMT
When in London recently I visited Farm Street Jesuit Church. The main window (a Tree of JEsse) is in honour of the nineteenth-century Catholic philanthropist Lady Georgiana Fullerton. (Her husband was the -absentee - owner of Ballintoy, Co. Antrim, and also owned an estate in England.) I thought the tints were very nice, but there was an incongruity in a nineteenth-century portrayal of the Patriarchs as fifteenth-century knights, as distinct from a fifteenth-century portrayal. The pulpit is rather small and inscribed with the names of celebrated preachers who spoke from it, including the Irish-born Fr Basil Maturin who drowned on the LUSITANIA. It also has the names of Cardinals Wiseman, Newman and Manning. I couldn't help wondering how Wiseman (whose idea of fasting was reputedly a five-course fish dinner) fitted into it. (Newman was a small man and Manning was tall and thin, so the question doesn't arise with them). The side altar to St Francis Xavier has a tableau of the Saint dying on the shore as he waited for permission to enter China, and there is a marble statue of Blessed (as he was then) John Fisher holding a metal axe as the instrument of his martyrdom. Apparently the practice of honouring Fisher and More together was not general when the altar was put up. The confessional is very inconspicuous towards the back of the church, and you have to look for it.
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Post by prayerful on Jan 4, 2017 17:13:25 GMT
St Joseph's parish church in Baltinglass was not entirely destroyed by V2. The finely carved, wood inlaid high altar was moved out (like how it was in St Kevin's church temporarily) and the silver sanctuary lamp was sold to itinerants for pennies, but overall the high altar and side altars dedicated to Our Lady and St Joseph are still in situ. It is clear enough those side altars are now just barely understood decoration as seating is placed perpendicular to them, but the church retains the integrity of the original design. It isn't at the level of St Kevin's church on Harrington Street, and the shrines seem ignored (compared to say St Paul of the Cross, Mt Argus, although the high altar there had some barbaric V2 modifications).
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Post by hibernicus on Mar 19, 2023 19:58:03 GMT
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