CHAPTER XXXIII p. 318
WARDENS OF GALWAY John Birmingham in 1514 John O Dermode warden in 1529 The possessions of the college being litigated this warden sent a petition to Cardinal Wolsey with a view of terminating future contests thereon A commission issued to the dean of Kilfenora to investigate the claim The dean by his decree dated the 5th of August 1529 confirmed the title of the college Patrick Blake warden in 1549 Henry Brangan in 1557 James Fallon in 1620 Walter Lynch in 1643 Disagreement arose between the archbishop of Tuam and this warden in a matter of a vacancy to which the warden presented a priest but who was refused admission by the former unless under conditions advantageous to himself or to the see of Tuam Violence was recurred to as excommunication was fulminated on both sides Henry Joyce and Mathew Lynch were wardens in the reign of Charles H Henry Brown was chosen warden on the 1st of August 1688 John Bodkin Fitzandrew warden in 1691 Edmund Lynch succeeded fe warden During his wardcnship the persecution raged violently The remnants of the collegiate property were collected and secretly sent to France were there converted into money and put to interest The fund having increased by donations and bequests was applied to the purchase of an income in Paris annually forwarded to Galway and divided among the warden and vicars The warden received forty pounds yearly and the vicars twenty five This property as well as the church plate which was also sent to France and deposited in the Irish college at Paris were seized and confiscated In the time of Edmund Lynch the Rev Peter French a native of Galway and who was thirty years a missionary among the Indians of Mexico returned to his native town He converted multitudes from idolatry and died in Galway AD 1693 Patrick Skerrett Fitzmichael succeeded The persecution raged against the Catholics without mercy during his wardenship also Patrick was ordained in 1679 at Salamanca by Peter Salazar the bishop of that place and before his election officiated as pastor in Galway Patrick Birmingham a clergyman of profound learning and talent was elected warden before the year 1731 was not of the Galway names and families and was chosen to pacify others called non tribes After his election he was thrown into prison for not having conformed to the laws prescribed for popish priests but he was released by order of the government having shewn his compliance During his warden ship the disputes between the archbishop of Tuam and the collegiate clergy were revived proceedings were instituted at Rome by Bernard O Gara then archbishop of Tuam and by the clergy and people of Galway A compromise took place and was approved by the bull of Clement XLI dated the 21st of April 1738 and by this bull the affairs of the Catholic wardenship have been regulated Warden Birmingham died in 1747 universally regretted Hyacinth Bodkin a pious and learned divine was elected survived but a short time having died AD 1749 On his death the Rev Mark Kirwan of Dalgan was elected being not agreeable to the lay patrons Anthony Blake of Dunmacreena was chosen warden He afterwards filled the primatial chair of Armagh Francis Kirwan was elected in 1755 He filled the warden's chair with honor to religion and advantage to the town until his death which took place in June 1770 John Joyes of Oxford in the county of Mayo was elected He continued warden until February 1783 when he departed fife leaving a reputation of being a good and zealous pastor in the cause of religion and public morals tt Augustine Kirwan a divine gifted with every virtue which adorns the clerical character was elected as warden He was born in August 1725 He received orders in August and September 1747 from Joseph Sancho Granado bishop of Salamanca in Spain and the priesthood on the 23d of December same year from Peter Gonsalez bishop of Arilia This excellent warden died in the sixty seventh year of his age amidst the tears of the community on the 7th of August 1791 John Joyes nephew of the former warden of the name was elected by a large majority and during the election the old disputes between tribes and non tribes were resuscitated with considerable animosity In consequence of this disunion the town became a scene of religious anarchy and confusion both parties appealed to Rome and on the 17th of June 1792 it was decided in favor of the ancient names and families or lay patrons with however a reservation of appeal by a decree which obtained the sanction of Pope Pius VI A change having taken place by which it was deemed the canonical validity of the collegiate patronage became doubtful and the matter being laid before the active and vigilant archbishop of Tuam the abolition of the collegiate rights and the union of the wardenship of Galway to the archiepiscopal see was in contemplation but it was defeated by the efforts of the Rev Valentine Bodkin the agent of the lay patrons and afterwards warden John Joyes strove to allay the angry feelings of discord and to reconcile matters by his amiable and conciliatory demeanor He died AD 1805 Valentine Bodkin an accomplished scholar and divine had resided in Italy until the period of the French revolution when having returned to Galway he officiated as one of the vicars United to the oldest and most respectable families of the town and endeared to the rest by ties of friendship and affection he was elected warden He died in 1812 Edmund French ac or vert to the Catholic church and the son of the Rev Edmund French for many years the Protestant warden of Galway was elected As he was a Dominican a disunion took place the chapter declared the proceedings null and finally appealed to the Pope complaining against the intrusion of a regular into a secular chapter Many of the respectable inhabitants also murmured How ever the Pope confirmed the election of Edmund French in June 1813 he has been the last warden This anomalous condition of affairs through which religion sustained injury by the revival of disputes among the people of Galway having engaged the attention of the Holy See the wardenship was abolished in 1831 and has been erected into a bishopric George Joseph Browne a native of the diocese of Elphin over which he now presides educated at Maynooth was appointed the first bishop of Galway and consecrated at Athlone in October 1831 by Oliver Kelly archbishop of Tuam who was assisted on the occasion by the bishops of Elphin and Achonry Lawrence O Donnell consecrated bishop of Galway on the 28th of October 1845 worthily presides
Saturday, 23 March 2019
The Wardenship of Galway
CHAPTER XXXIII p. 316
WARDENSHTP OF GALWAY The city of Galway originally belonged to the see of Enaghdune which was united in 1324 to the archdiocese of Tuam Malachy Mac Aeda or MacHugh in the chair of Jarlath Philip de Slane bishop of Cork who was sent on an embassy to the Pope by King Edward II and who discharged his commission with address and who on his return to Ireland was appointed privy councillor was instrumental in effecting this union The business seems to have regarded the reform of the ecclesiastical state of Ireland and the Pope armed this prelate and the archbishops of Dublin and Cashel with authority to inform themselves of what was expedient for the welfare of the country A council having been convened at which many of the nobility and gentry were present among other things it was thought proper to annex the sees of Enachdune Achonry and Kilmacduach to the metropolitan church of Tuam The union of Achonry and Kilmacduach has not taken place The union with Tuam being accomplished the church of St Nicholas one of the finest ecclesiastical structures in Ireland was governed by vicars who were instituted by the archbishop and who were commonly of Irish extraction They were entirely different in their manners and habits of life as well as in principle from their English parishioners Under such a state of things discontent grew up and the affaire being badly circumstanced Donatus O Murray archbishop of Tuam in the ar 1484 erected the church of St Nicholas into a collegiate one and xempted it from his jurisdiction by letters under his seal and which were confirmed by the bull of Pope Innocent VIII and Donatus also attached to it the parish church of Balenclair or Claregalway William Joyce archbishop of Tuam and a native of Galway confirmed by his deed all the former grants and privileges of the collegiate church wardens and vicars and soon after united to it the churches of Furanmore Moycullen and Skryne The people of Galway were remarkable for their urbanity and elegance of manners equalling those of the most refined community John Lynch bishop of Killala in his life of Francis Kirwan his predecessor says that the city of Galway was adorned with green marble walls flanked by numerous towers and that within the precincts of these walls were edifices of the same material its noble squares and fair proportions elegant and symmetrical gladdened the vision and that it appeared to him as Jerusalem did to the prophet Jeremias a city of most perfect beauty Gilway far famed for its beauty has been equally so for its piety and devotion as well m its attention to the splendor of Catholic ceremonial in public worship as Galway appeared to Rinuccini the nuncio extraordinary from the court of Rome to the people of Ireland to be nearest his ideal of a Christian church The following verses taken from Hardiman's History of Galway will illustrate the ancient piety and devotion of the fourteen principal families of Galway as well as the splendor of their city Rome boasts seven hills the Nile its seven fold stream Around the pole seven radiant planets gleam Galway Conacian Rome twice equals these She boasts twice seven illustrious families Twice seven high towers defend her lofty walls And polished marble decks her splendid halls Twice seven her massive gates o er which arise Twico seven strong castles towering to the skies Twice seven her bridges through whoso arches flow The silvery tides majestically slow Her ample church with twice seven altars flames An heavenly patron every altar claims While twice seven convents pious anthems raise Seven for each sex to sound Jehovah's praise The warden of Galway sometimes styled quasi bishop was a prelate chosen triennially by the lay patrd of the town exercised episcopal jurisdiction over a large district and population in the capital of the province but subject to the visitation of the metropolitan every third year His institution by th vicars conferred upon him all necessary faculties for his jurisdiction He possessed a power of visitation over all religious foundations within the wardenship sent two students to the college of Maynooth was entitled to vote in synod with mitre crozier and pontificals as other prelates t The vicare were also elected by lay patrons and at the time of the abolition of the wardcnship the vicars were inferior to none in the kingdom for piety learning and zeal in the discharge of their sacred functions It is recorded that only one in the series of Wardens has been selected who did not give satisfaction The collegiate church of Galway for extent and architectural beauty is a lasting monument of the piety the wealth and the public spirit of its founders It is erected on a gentle eminence on the site of a small chapel formerly the only place of worship belonging to the settlers The present church was founded in the year 1820 and was dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra the tutelar saint of mariners
WARDENSHTP OF GALWAY The city of Galway originally belonged to the see of Enaghdune which was united in 1324 to the archdiocese of Tuam Malachy Mac Aeda or MacHugh in the chair of Jarlath Philip de Slane bishop of Cork who was sent on an embassy to the Pope by King Edward II and who discharged his commission with address and who on his return to Ireland was appointed privy councillor was instrumental in effecting this union The business seems to have regarded the reform of the ecclesiastical state of Ireland and the Pope armed this prelate and the archbishops of Dublin and Cashel with authority to inform themselves of what was expedient for the welfare of the country A council having been convened at which many of the nobility and gentry were present among other things it was thought proper to annex the sees of Enachdune Achonry and Kilmacduach to the metropolitan church of Tuam The union of Achonry and Kilmacduach has not taken place The union with Tuam being accomplished the church of St Nicholas one of the finest ecclesiastical structures in Ireland was governed by vicars who were instituted by the archbishop and who were commonly of Irish extraction They were entirely different in their manners and habits of life as well as in principle from their English parishioners Under such a state of things discontent grew up and the affaire being badly circumstanced Donatus O Murray archbishop of Tuam in the ar 1484 erected the church of St Nicholas into a collegiate one and xempted it from his jurisdiction by letters under his seal and which were confirmed by the bull of Pope Innocent VIII and Donatus also attached to it the parish church of Balenclair or Claregalway William Joyce archbishop of Tuam and a native of Galway confirmed by his deed all the former grants and privileges of the collegiate church wardens and vicars and soon after united to it the churches of Furanmore Moycullen and Skryne The people of Galway were remarkable for their urbanity and elegance of manners equalling those of the most refined community John Lynch bishop of Killala in his life of Francis Kirwan his predecessor says that the city of Galway was adorned with green marble walls flanked by numerous towers and that within the precincts of these walls were edifices of the same material its noble squares and fair proportions elegant and symmetrical gladdened the vision and that it appeared to him as Jerusalem did to the prophet Jeremias a city of most perfect beauty Gilway far famed for its beauty has been equally so for its piety and devotion as well m its attention to the splendor of Catholic ceremonial in public worship as Galway appeared to Rinuccini the nuncio extraordinary from the court of Rome to the people of Ireland to be nearest his ideal of a Christian church The following verses taken from Hardiman's History of Galway will illustrate the ancient piety and devotion of the fourteen principal families of Galway as well as the splendor of their city Rome boasts seven hills the Nile its seven fold stream Around the pole seven radiant planets gleam Galway Conacian Rome twice equals these She boasts twice seven illustrious families Twice seven high towers defend her lofty walls And polished marble decks her splendid halls Twice seven her massive gates o er which arise Twico seven strong castles towering to the skies Twice seven her bridges through whoso arches flow The silvery tides majestically slow Her ample church with twice seven altars flames An heavenly patron every altar claims While twice seven convents pious anthems raise Seven for each sex to sound Jehovah's praise The warden of Galway sometimes styled quasi bishop was a prelate chosen triennially by the lay patrd of the town exercised episcopal jurisdiction over a large district and population in the capital of the province but subject to the visitation of the metropolitan every third year His institution by th vicars conferred upon him all necessary faculties for his jurisdiction He possessed a power of visitation over all religious foundations within the wardenship sent two students to the college of Maynooth was entitled to vote in synod with mitre crozier and pontificals as other prelates t The vicare were also elected by lay patrons and at the time of the abolition of the wardcnship the vicars were inferior to none in the kingdom for piety learning and zeal in the discharge of their sacred functions It is recorded that only one in the series of Wardens has been selected who did not give satisfaction The collegiate church of Galway for extent and architectural beauty is a lasting monument of the piety the wealth and the public spirit of its founders It is erected on a gentle eminence on the site of a small chapel formerly the only place of worship belonging to the settlers The present church was founded in the year 1820 and was dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra the tutelar saint of mariners
Sunday, 27 May 2018
Pilgrimage to Loughrea, County Galway
Members and friends of the Catholic Heritage Association returned in pilgrimage to Saint Brendan's Cathedral, Loughrea, the jewel of the Celtic Arts and Crafts revival. A report of the 2017 pilgrimage can be found here. The Mass was offered for the unborn as it was the morning of the vote count for the Referendum on the 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution.
The Cathedral's website can be found here.
The Buildings of Ireland survey with additional images of the architectural detail can be found here.
Roaringwater Journal gives a really good detailed view of the art of the Cathedral here.
The Dictionary of Irish Architects gives details of the works of the Cathedral here.
Aidan McRae Thompson's excellent flickr album of the Cathedral can be accessed here.
Wikipedia has a short account of the Cathedral here.
The Cathedral's website can be found here.
The Buildings of Ireland survey with additional images of the architectural detail can be found here.
Roaringwater Journal gives a really good detailed view of the art of the Cathedral here.
The Dictionary of Irish Architects gives details of the works of the Cathedral here.
Aidan McRae Thompson's excellent flickr album of the Cathedral can be accessed here.
Wikipedia has a short account of the Cathedral here.
Sunday, 25 March 2018
Traditional Easter Ceremonies
The Easter Ceremonies in the Gregorian Rite:
Holy Thursday
4 p.m. - Holy Mass: Silverstream Priory, Stamullen, Co. Meath
6 p.m. - Holy Mass: Sacred Heart Church, The Crescent, Limerick City
6 p.m. - Holy Mass: Ss. Peter and Paul's Church, Paul Street, Cork City
7 p.m. - Holy Mass: St. Kevin's Church, Harrington Street, Dublin 8.
7.30 p.m. - Tenebrae: Silverstream Priory, Stamullen, Co. Meath
Good Friday
12 noon - Stations of the Cross: Ss. Peter and Paul's Church, Paul Street, Cork City
3 p.m. - Liturgy of the Passion: Sacred Heart Church, The Crescent, Limerick City
3 p.m. - Liturgy of the Passion: Silverstream Priory, Stamullen, Co. Meath
5 p.m. - Liturgy of the Passion: St. Kevin's Church, Harrington Street, Dublin 8.
6 p.m. - Liturgy of the Passion: Ss. Peter and Paul's Church, Paul Street, Cork City
7 p.m. - Stations of the Cross: St. Kevin's Church, Harrington Street, Dublin 8.
7.30 p.m. - Tenebrae: Silverstream Priory, Stamullen, Co. Meath
Holy Saturday
12.30 p.m. - Tenebrae: Ss. Peter and Paul's Church, Paul Street, Cork City
8 p.m. - Easter Vigil: Silverstream Priory, Stamullen, Co. Meath
8.30 p.m. - Easter Vigil: Ss. Peter and Paul's Church, Paul Street, Cork City
9 p.m. - Easter Vigil: Sacred Heart Church, The Crescent, Limerick City
9 p.m. - Easter Vigil: St. Kevin's Church, Harrington Street, Dublin 8.
Easter Sunday
9 a.m. - Holy Mass: St. Mary's Church, Ballyhea, Co. Cork
9 a.m. - Holy Mass: St. Mary's Church, Chapel Street, Newry, Co. Down
10 a.m. - Holy Mass: St. Patrick's Church, Drumkeen, Co. Donegal
10 a.m. - Holy Mass: Silverstream Priory, Stamullen, Co. Meath
10.30 a.m. - Holy Mass: Sacred Heart Church, The Crescent, Limerick City
10.30 a.m. - Holy Mass: St. Kevin's Church, Harrington Street, Dublin 8.
12 noon - Holy Mass: Ss. Peter and Paul's Church, Paul Street, Cork City
1.30 p.m. - Holy Mass: Holy Cross Church (O.P.), Tralee, Co. Kerry
2 p.m. - Holy Mass: St. Columba's Church, Longtower, Derry City
4 p.m. - Holy Mass: St. Therese's Church, Somerton Road, Belfast City
5 p.m. - Holy Mass: St. Patrick's Church, College Road, Kilkenny City
5.30 p.m. - Holy Mass: Blessed Sacrament Chapel, Our Lady's Shrine, Knock, Co. Mayo
Beannachtaí na Cásca oraibh go léir!
A happy and holy Easter to one and all!
Tuesday, 7 November 2017
Pilgrimage to Rome 2017 (7) - Day 2
After Mass in the Church of Sant'Eustachio for the feast of All Saints, our pilgrims made their way up the Via della Dogana Vecchia to the Church of San Luigi dei Franchesi. This is another of the National Churches of Rome that we visited on the feast of All Saints. Having passed across the Piazza Navona we visited Santa Maria dell'Anima of the Germans and San Nicola dei Lorenesi and then passed down the Vicolo della Pace to enter the Teatro of Santa Maria della Pace, built under our friend Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere and completed under our dear friend Pope Alexander VII Chigi.
Santa Maria dell'Anima
Santa Maria della Pace
We made our way down the way of Peace to the Via del Governo Vecchio, part of the old Via Papale, the main thoroughfare of Papal Rome, and down to the Chiesa Nuova, the new Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella, the home of the Oratorians and the tomb of St. Philip Neri.
Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Pilgrimage to Rome 2017 (2) - Opening Mass in the Minerva
Meeting in the Vatican
Our pilgrimage to Rome works on several levels. It is a visit to the tombs of the Apostles and the other Saints of Rome. It is an occasion to spend time together in prayer as a group. It is an opportunity to experience the sights, sounds and culture of Rome, to see with our own eyes our heritage as Catholics in living as well as in static form. It is a journey to honour the See of Peter and Our Holy Father the Pope. As a journey to experience the Catholic culture of Rome and to honour the Holy See, an important element of our pilgrimage is always to pay our respects to officials of the Holy See. This year, a few of the pilgrims had the honour to begin our first day, just before Mass, with an audience with the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Archbishop Arthur Roche.
Mass in the Minerva
The first Mass of the 2017 Catholic Heritage Association Pilgrimage to Rome took place in the Sacristy Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, that is, the Basilica of Our Lady built over the ruins of the Temple of Minerva. During our 2008 Pilgrimage we had the privilege of having Mass in the beautiful Capranica Chapel dedicated to the Holy Rosary (see here). This year, continuing our quest 'boldly to go where few men have gone before,' we were granted an even greater privilege to have Mass in the small Chapel of Saint Catherine of Siena, which is the actual room in which Saint Catherine died, and which is to be found behind the wonderful Sacristy of the Basilica (see here), the site of at least two Papal Conclaves.
The Chapel was rebuilt on this site in 1637 on the initiative of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, using the original walls of the room in a nearby house where the Saint died in 1380. The house itself is now the site of the Palazzo di Santa Chiara on the Via Santa Chiara and the space left by the room is now itself a Chapel (see here) called Santa Caterina da Siena in Transito.
The Cardinal also had the frescoes attributed to Antoniazzo Romano and his assistants placed in the Sacristy Chapel, which had originally had been in the left arm of the transept. Over the Altar, the Crucifixion and the Saints, on the left wall, the Annunciation with Ss. Jerome and Onofrio, and on the right wall, the Resurrection with Ss. Lucy and Augustine.
The Altar was erected by Pope Benedict XIII, himself a Dominican who is buried in the Chapel of St. Dominic in the left hand transept of the Basilica, decorated by the Filippo Raguzzini on the instructions of the same Pope Benedict XIII.
Our pilgrimage to Rome works on several levels. It is a visit to the tombs of the Apostles and the other Saints of Rome. It is an occasion to spend time together in prayer as a group. It is an opportunity to experience the sights, sounds and culture of Rome, to see with our own eyes our heritage as Catholics in living as well as in static form. It is a journey to honour the See of Peter and Our Holy Father the Pope. As a journey to experience the Catholic culture of Rome and to honour the Holy See, an important element of our pilgrimage is always to pay our respects to officials of the Holy See. This year, a few of the pilgrims had the honour to begin our first day, just before Mass, with an audience with the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Archbishop Arthur Roche.
Mass in the Minerva
The first Mass of the 2017 Catholic Heritage Association Pilgrimage to Rome took place in the Sacristy Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, that is, the Basilica of Our Lady built over the ruins of the Temple of Minerva. During our 2008 Pilgrimage we had the privilege of having Mass in the beautiful Capranica Chapel dedicated to the Holy Rosary (see here). This year, continuing our quest 'boldly to go where few men have gone before,' we were granted an even greater privilege to have Mass in the small Chapel of Saint Catherine of Siena, which is the actual room in which Saint Catherine died, and which is to be found behind the wonderful Sacristy of the Basilica (see here), the site of at least two Papal Conclaves.
The Chapel was rebuilt on this site in 1637 on the initiative of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, using the original walls of the room in a nearby house where the Saint died in 1380. The house itself is now the site of the Palazzo di Santa Chiara on the Via Santa Chiara and the space left by the room is now itself a Chapel (see here) called Santa Caterina da Siena in Transito.
The Cardinal also had the frescoes attributed to Antoniazzo Romano and his assistants placed in the Sacristy Chapel, which had originally had been in the left arm of the transept. Over the Altar, the Crucifixion and the Saints, on the left wall, the Annunciation with Ss. Jerome and Onofrio, and on the right wall, the Resurrection with Ss. Lucy and Augustine.
The Altar was erected by Pope Benedict XIII, himself a Dominican who is buried in the Chapel of St. Dominic in the left hand transept of the Basilica, decorated by the Filippo Raguzzini on the instructions of the same Pope Benedict XIII.
Monday, 30 October 2017
Pilgrimage to Rome 2017 (1) - Opening Vespers and Benediction
The annual pilgrimage to Rome of the Catholic Heritage Association began this evening with Vespers of the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception was, as usual, the thread of prayer that joined together the various visits and ceremonies of the Pilgrimage. The Hours of the Little Office were recited during the course of each day of the Pilgrimage.
We returned this year to the Istituto Maria Santissima Bambina, where we had stayed in 2003. The Istituo is one of the most spectacular and memorable places to stay in Rome. The Catholic Heritage Association always favours religious houses as the base for international pilgrimages and was pleased to have the opportunity to return to the Istituto. The House is run by the Sisters of Charity of the Infant Mary, founded in Milan by Saints Vincenza Gerosa and Bartolomea Capitanio, both members of the Sodality of Our Lady. It is a modern building in a part of the medieval Leonine fortifications surrounding the Vatican and is on Vatican Extraterritorial property. The views from the fourth floor terrace are legendary.
We returned this year to the Istituto Maria Santissima Bambina, where we had stayed in 2003. The Istituo is one of the most spectacular and memorable places to stay in Rome. The Catholic Heritage Association always favours religious houses as the base for international pilgrimages and was pleased to have the opportunity to return to the Istituto. The House is run by the Sisters of Charity of the Infant Mary, founded in Milan by Saints Vincenza Gerosa and Bartolomea Capitanio, both members of the Sodality of Our Lady. It is a modern building in a part of the medieval Leonine fortifications surrounding the Vatican and is on Vatican Extraterritorial property. The views from the fourth floor terrace are legendary.
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