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Over the years the Clonard community has promoted a range of initiatives in religious devotion. One of the earliest was the establishment of confraternities for men and women which occurred in 1897 and which were, at the time, an innovative combination of religious services and instruction and proved extremely popular. [4]
Patrick Egan, C.Ss.R (20 July 1923 – 9 July 2016 [1]) was an Irish Catholic (Redemptorist) priest, notable for being in charge of the Men's Confraternity in Clonard Monastery, Belfast, when the "Troubles" broke out in August 1969. He anointed those who were shot that day and tried to stop a potential massacre of Catholics by calling in ...
The abbot of Clonard led the clergy of the midlands in the same fashion that the abbot of Armagh led those in the north. [4] During its heyday, a hymn written in Finnian's honour claimed that the monastery's school housed 3,000 pupils receiving religious instruction at any given time. [5] A great part of the abbey erected by St. Finian was ...
The smaller establishments such as monastic cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks) and camerae of the military orders of monks (Knights Templars and Knights Hospitallers) are included.
Disert-moholmoc Monastery ~≈: early monastic site, possibly located in County Meath possibly Staholmog, infra: Diore-mac-Aidmecain Monastery ~ early monastic site, nuns, founded 6th century (in the time of St Finnian of Clonard) St Lassara the virgin _____ Dairemacnaidmecain: Donacarney Monastery nuns, ruins purportedly a nunnery [notes 5 ...
At that time, the Upper Falls was a rural area and the city council and the Catholic Church decided to buy large spaces in the area to create cemeteries. The Belfast City Cemetery which is located at the bottom of the Whiterock Road, is a municipal cemetery maintained by the Belfast City Council and is one of the largest burial sites in the city.
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Clonard, County Meath, a village in County Meath, Ireland Clonard Abbey, an early medieval monastery Roman Catholic Diocese of Clonard, a medieval diocese until its 1202 suppression; Clonard, a suburb of Wexford town