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Post by cato on Feb 25, 2019 21:32:30 GMT
A mummified corpse of a medieval knight and the corpse of a 400 year old nun have been desecrated in Dublin over the weekend. I have never visited the famous mummies of St Audeon's and now may never be able to thanks to this new low in wickedness.
The knight was beheaded. This may be mindless vandalism or be a more sinister anti Christian iconolastic ideology rearing its head.
Several years ago the preserved heart of St Lawrence O Toole was robbed from nearby Christchurch cathedral but thankfully was later recovered. The motivation of the thieves who went to considerable trouble to steal it was never discovered.
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Post by Séamus on Aug 25, 2019 12:05:09 GMT
A mummified corpse of a medieval knight and the corpse of a 400 year old nun have been desecrated in Dublin over the weekend. I have never visited the famous mummies of St Audeon's and now may never be able to thanks to this new low in wickedness. The knight was beheaded. This may be mindless vandalism or be a more sinister anti Christian iconolastic ideology rearing its head. Several years ago the preserved heart of St Lawrence O Toole was robbed from nearby Christchurch cathedral but thankfully was later recovered. The motivation of the thieves who went to considerable trouble to steal it was never discovered. I think an old Dúchas brochure for this chapel might be one of the things I passed on to someone going to the current LMS Walsingham trip (never heard if he's going to Ireland after all) Anyway,a piece I came across today,quoted from a 1911 book by a 1950s one, also brings up a bit of history connected with crusading: "Kilmainham means literally St Maignend's church,for a monastic church stood on the sight in preNorman times. St Maignan had been abbot of the monastery at Killmaignend in the 7th century. The Royal Hospital at Kilmainham(now occupied by the civil guards) was erected in 1680-1682 on the site of the Priory of the Knights Hospitallers,which succeeded the Celtic Abbey. The proiry was suppressed by Henry VIII in 1541. Bishop Donnelly reminds us that a relic of the ancient Priory survived integrally in the present building...'at the time of the erection of the royal Hospital (1680) the walls of the Priory church were the only remains above the ground and the mullions of the antique eastern window were so well preserved as to form the tracery of the existing chapel window,the only visible surviving relic of the Priory of the Knights Hospitallers', 'a short history of some Dublin parishes' " cf mercy unto thousands Different spellings of the original saints' name are quoted as is. |
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