The Diocese of Meath: Ancient and Modern, Volume 2J. F. Fowler, 1867 - Ireland |
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... authority : I mean the Hierarchy of Ireland , which has only to will it , and all shall be accomplished - which has only to utter words of commission and encouragement , and forthwith the names and memories of many of the saints and ...
... authority : I mean the Hierarchy of Ireland , which has only to will it , and all shall be accomplished - which has only to utter words of commission and encouragement , and forthwith the names and memories of many of the saints and ...
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... authority of the Holy See ; she wel- comed the right of private judgment in order to abrogate ecclesiastical jurisdiction , but she took care to punish with fine , imprisonment , and death , all who presumed to judge otherwise than as ...
... authority of the Holy See ; she wel- comed the right of private judgment in order to abrogate ecclesiastical jurisdiction , but she took care to punish with fine , imprisonment , and death , all who presumed to judge otherwise than as ...
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... authority of the Church . As a reward for his pliancy of conscience , and as a stimulant to advance the cause of the Reformation , Queen Elizabeth , by letters patent , in virtue of her assumed spiritual supremacy , united the diocese ...
... authority of the Church . As a reward for his pliancy of conscience , and as a stimulant to advance the cause of the Reformation , Queen Elizabeth , by letters patent , in virtue of her assumed spiritual supremacy , united the diocese ...
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... authority of the Holy See , took the oath of spiritual supremacy , and identified himself with the schismatical proceedings of Henry VIII . We have seen , too , how , as a congruous consequence , he drifted into the heresies of Edward ...
... authority of the Holy See , took the oath of spiritual supremacy , and identified himself with the schismatical proceedings of Henry VIII . We have seen , too , how , as a congruous consequence , he drifted into the heresies of Edward ...
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... authorities that could be quoted , it is clear that the diocese of Meath , si- tuated in the very heart of the English Pale , and thereby more prominently exposed , from the very onset , to the action . of English and Protestant ...
... authorities that could be quoted , it is clear that the diocese of Meath , si- tuated in the very heart of the English Pale , and thereby more prominently exposed , from the very onset , to the action . of English and Protestant ...
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Abbey amongst ancient appointed pastor Archbishop of Armagh Ardbraccan Athboy Ballimore barony Bishop of Meath buried Castlepollard Castletown-Geoghegan Catholic chapel Chevers church-yard clergy Clogher confirmed confirmed.-Sermon convent County Meath County Westmeath Cusack death died diocese of Meath Dominican Drogheda Duleek Dunshaughlin ecclesiastical erected Fagan faith Father feet Ferrall flock following inscription Franciscans Geoghegan grave-yard Holy inter Ireland Irish James John Kells Kilbeg Kilbeggan Kilbride Kilkenny Killucan Kilmore King letter Lord Lynch Mageoghegan Maynooth memory Michael monument Moynalty Mullingar Navan Navan and Maynooth Nobber Nuncio O'Reilly officiated as curate old church Oliver Plunket ordained Ormond Parish Priest pastor was born persecution Peter Popish prelates present pastor Primate Protestant Rathmolyon Ratoath Reilly religion Remonstrance Requiescat in pace Rome sacred Sermon soul studied in Navan succeeded Synod Thomas tion townland translated Trim Tullamore Tyrrell union venerable Vicar Vicar-General Visitation Walsh Westmeath
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Page 28 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 152 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 78 - About the years 1652 and 1653," says Colonel Lawrence, in his Interests of Ireland, " the plague and famine had so swept away whole counties, that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles and not see a living creature, either man, or beast, or bird, — they being all dead, or had quitted those desolate places.
Page 14 - They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins, in goat-skins, being in want, distressed, afflicted: of whom the world was not worthy ; wandering in deserts, in mountains, and in dens, and in caves of the earth.
Page 152 - Ildefonso, in the armies of Frederic and in the armies of Maria Theresa. One exile became a Marshal of France. Another became Prime Minister of Spain.
Page 28 - Munster; for, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would' have thought they should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not...
Page 42 - ... them, — for the conversion of the just and lawful safeguard, liberties, and rights of Ireland, — and, lastly, for the defence of their own lives, fortunes, lands, and possessions ; — whereas...
Page 9 - A heresy and a new error broke out in England, the effect of pride, vainglory, avarice, sensual desire, and the prevalence of a variety of scientific and philosophical speculations, so that the people of England went into opposition to the Pope and to Rome. " At the same time, they followed a variety of opinions ; and...
Page 30 - The religion of the Papists is superstitious and idolatrous; their faith and doctrine erroneous and heretical, their church in respect rv ss of both apostatical. To give them, therefore, a toleration, or to consent that they may freely exercise their religion, and profess their faith and doctrine is a grievous sin, and that in two respects.
Page 9 - ... so that the people of England went into opposition to the Pope and to Rome. At the same time they followed a variety of opinions, and the old law of Moses, after the manner of the Jewish people ; and they gave the title of Head of the Church of God, in his own realm, to the King. There were enacted by the King and Council new laws and statutes after their own will.