A Lecture on the History of the Bishops of Cork, and Cathedral of St. Fin Barre: Delivered in the Lecture Room of St. Peter's Working Men's Association, on Monday Evening, January 25th, 1864 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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There are probably no institutions, out of the many noble ones of which our country boasts, that are a greater source of pride to us than the Cathedrals of the British Isles. Ask the Anglo-Catholic inhabitant of some Cathedral town, what is the most interesting object and best worth seeing in his locality? - and he will forthwith point with significant meaning to the tower or steeple of the Cathedral, as it rises in triumphant grandeur amid the smoke and chimneys of his manufacturing town. If you should be fortunate enough to find him in a communicative humour he may, perchance, dwell on the remote antiquity of its founder, the unrivalled splendour of its architecture, the hallowed memories of many successions of bishops, abbots, deans, archdeacons, and a host of minor ecclesiastics who once ministered within its walls, and walked through those same aisles, beneath the shadow of those numerous stately columns that have stood for ages as sentinels under the lofty roof, and still, with undiminished splendour, direct the wandering eye to heaven. He will also tell you of the magnificence of the choral service and the choir. If you can induce him to accompany you to this gorgeous pile - with uncovered head and reverential gait - he will point to the founder's tomb; and, as on tiptoe he gently guides you through the lengthy nave, transepts, and side chapels, he will now and again whisper softly into your ear, as he points to some mutilated cross-legged effigy, "Here sleeps the dust of some famous knight who fought in the holy wars; in his day he helped to chase the infidel Saracen from Zion's Hill, trampled on and triumphed over the crescent, and in its stead set up the cross." This recumbent, mitred figure, with the crozier across his breast, commemorates some prelate who, tradition says, was present when the charter of British liberty and rights was signed at Runnymeade.
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There are probably no institutions, out of the many noble ones of which our country boasts, that are a greater source of pride to us than the Cathedrals of the British Isles. Ask the Anglo-Catholic inhabitant of some Cathedral town, what is the most interesting object and best worth seeing in his locality? - and he will forthwith point with significant meaning to the tower or steeple of the Cathedral, as it rises in triumphant grandeur amid the smoke and chimneys of his manufacturing town. If you should be fortunate enough to find him in a communicative humour he may, perchance, dwell on the remote antiquity of its founder, the unrivalled splendour of its architecture, the hallowed memories of many successions of bishops, abbots, deans, archdeacons, and a host of minor ecclesiastics who once ministered within its walls, and walked through those same aisles, beneath the shadow of those numerous stately columns that have stood for ages as sentinels under the lofty roof, and still, with undiminished splendour, direct the wandering eye to heaven. He will also tell you of the magnificence of the choral service and the choir. If you can induce him to accompany you to this gorgeous pile - with uncovered head and reverential gait - he will point to the founder's tomb; and, as on tiptoe he gently guides you through the lengthy nave, transepts, and side chapels, he will now and again whisper softly into your ear, as he points to some mutilated cross-legged effigy, "Here sleeps the dust of some famous knight who fought in the holy wars; in his day he helped to chase the infidel Saracen from Zion's Hill, trampled on and triumphed over the crescent, and in its stead set up the cross." This recumbent, mitred figure, with the crozier across his breast, commemorates some prelate who, tradition says, was present when the charter of British liberty and rights was signed at Runnymeade.
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