#st. mary parish

[emaadsidiki]

Marienkirche & Fernsehturm Berlin ࿐ཽ༵༆༒

[richwall101]

St Mary Redcliffe - Bristol UK

The Church of St Mary the Virgin, widely known as St Mary Redcliffe, is the main Church of England parish church for the Redcliffe district of the city of Bristol, England. The first reference to a church on the site appears in 1158, with the present building dating from 1185 to 1872. The church is considered one of the country's finest and largest parish churches as well as an outstanding example of English Gothic architecture. The church is so large it is sometimes mistaken for Bristol Cathedral by tourists. The building has Grade I listed status, the highest possible category, by Historic England.

The church is notable for its many large stained glass windows, decorative stone vaults, flying buttresses, rare hexagonal porch and massive Gothic spire. With a height of 274 feet (84 m) to the top of the weathervane, St Mary Redcliffe is the sixth-tallest parish church in the country. The church spire is a major Bristol landmark, visible from across the city.

St Mary Redcliffe has received widespread critical acclaim from various architects, historians, poets, writers and monarchs. Queen Elizabeth I, on a visit to the church in 1574, described St Mary Redcliffe as "The fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England"; Simon Jenkins gives St Mary Redcliffe the maximum five-star rating in his book 'England's Thousand Best Churches', one of only eighteen to receive such a rating, describing it as a "masterpiece of English Gothic"; and Nikolaus Pevsner says that "St Mary Redcliffe need not fear comparison with any other English parish church".

[vox-anglosphere]

Family tomb & effigies in St Lawrence Church, Little Waldingfield

[postcard-from-the-past]

St. Mary's Parish Church in Finchley, UK

British vintage postcard

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1887 – Celtic Football Club was born in Glasgow.

A meeting in the church hall of St Mary’s parish in East Rose Street (now Forbes Street), Calton, Glasgow, established by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid, and while those present would have harboured well-intentioned ambitions for the new sporting organisation, none of them could ever have imagined that Celtic would go on to become one of the most famous names in world football. Brother Walfrid of…

[newtownpentacle]

Etna my heart out

Friday – photo by Mitch Waxman A last stop on my Allegheny River wanderings – after having visited Lock and Dam 2, Highland Park Reservoir, and Sharpsburg – was in Etna. Named for the Italian volcano, Etna was a steel town until 1953. My interest in the place was piqued by the promise of a waterfront trail with an attached parking lot. It took me a minute to find the parking lot, but after…

[sonofswift]

Using Ancestry as a step ladder

My research into James Fitzgerald (4G Grandfather, father of Elizabeth Fitzgerald, wife of James J. Shovlin) gave me the first glints of hope in finding more family in Ireland.

Searching on Ancestry has connected me to naturalization records, and other family histories that point me to County Cork, Ireland, as his place of birth.

Adding that to my search terms then brought me the collection Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915. In that I found the marriage record of a James Fitzgerald, approximate age, to an Anne Fitzgerald in 1833.

Further searching finds a James Fitzgerald baptized at the same church 29 years earlier, listing parents names David Fitzgerald and Mary Geran.

Further search on Ancestry has so far been lacking, so I turned to other resources on the web using the church as a research point. The St. Mary's James was baptized and married at may be another institution than the present Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary & St. Anne in Cork.

So my next avenue of research is the church itself, using the genealogy link on the page, I have sent an email to the parish for any information along the lines of the family I have tracked down.

I also noted in search a Reverand Mother Mary P. Fitzgerald buried on the Cathedral grounds having died in 1810. We'll see if she might also be a distant relation, possible a Great Aunt to James.

I'll keep you updated

[jontycrane]

West Sussex

The sunniest county in Britain, West Sussex is an understandably popular holiday destination, with epic beaches and plenty of history. The coastline is home to near continuous seaside towns, while the interior is mostly rural. West Wittering is one of the best known beaches, an epic stretch of sand with views across the Solent to the Isle of Wight and plenty of wind for windsurfers and kite…

[jamaicahomescom]

Port Maria City Profile

Nestled along the picturesque shores of the Jamaican parish of Saint Mary, Port Maria emerges as a vibrant hub of history and culture. Originally christened “Puerto Santa Maria” by Spanish settlers, it holds the distinction of being the second town established on the island, steeped in centuries of captivating tales and legacies. Overlooking the town, the weathered ruins of Fort Haldane, erected…

[insidecroydon]

Refugee family thrived in Croydon after fleeing savage attacks

Place of worship: the French church in Threadneedle Street in the City of London was where the Huguenot Galhie family regularly returned, even after they retired to Croydon SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Thousands of refugees, fleeing torture and execution in their home country, were once welcomed in England, where they enjoyed religious freedoms and worked hard all their lives. DAVID MORGAN, pictured left,…

[vox-anglosphere]

The Commonwealth continues to await good news, Your Majesty

British Royal Family -  King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend the Sunday service at the Church of St Mary Magdalene on the Sandringham estate in Sandringham, Norfolk. (Photo by Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images) | February 11, 2024

[fuzzysparrow]

Simeon and the Marylebone Murder

Dear Simeon,Local band, Loud and the Shouties has been accused of making far too much noise in band practice and disturbing the peace. Now, in a shocking turn of events, police have discovered a man – believed to be the lead singer, Hokee Kokee – collapsed outside the venue in Marylebone where the band were due to hold their first gig. Chief Inspector Watt A. Racket suspects foul play. Did one…

[theodoreangelos]

Austrian Parliament Building, Dr. Karl Renner-Ring 3, 1017 Wien Österreichisches Parlamentsgebäude Здание австрийского парламента Bâtiment du Parlement autrichien ────────────────────── View of the Parish church of St. Ulrich and Mary's consolation (Siebenstern Quarter) St. Ulrich is a Roman Catholic parish and church in Neubau, the 7th district of Vienna, Austria. The official name of the church is Pfarrkirche "Zum heiligen Ulrich" und "Maria Trost" (Parish church of St. Ulrich and Mary's consolation), it is also known as Ulrichskirche. The Baroque hall church with two towers was built in 1721. It is consecrated to St. Ulrich and St. Mary. Franz Schubert's Mass No. 4, a missa solemnis in C-major, was performed in the church in 1825 in an expanded orchestration.

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St Mary's Church was built in three stages, beginning in the 1100's

Kent

[portraitsofsaints]

Our Lady of Knock

Queen of Ireland

Feast Day: August 17

In the small town of Knock, Ireland 1879, Our Lady appeared to two women in the back of the town church. Mary was clothed in white garments and wearing a brilliant crown. By her side was St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist. Behind them, an altar with a lamb and a cross on it. The women called several others to the church who were also able to see this miracle. 10 days after the apparition a young girl, born deaf, was able to hear. By the end of the 1800s, over 300 cures were recorded by the parish priest. One-and-a-half million people make a pilgrimage to Knock annually.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[theyonagoda]

Cornelius Hickey's 2nd son + The general tragedy of it all.

So, like, I guess a lot of people know that IRL Cornelius Hickey had a son baptized in 1844. Looking through the birth registrations of St Mary's parish, Limerick, Ireland reveals that Thomas Hickey was likely not his only son. In May 1846, John Hickey was baptized, with Cornelius and his wife, Bridget Garvey, clearly stated to be his parents. By then, of course, Cornelius would've set sail to the arctic- the timeline matches exactly if Bridget got pregnant RIGHT before the expedition, and then waited, as many families did, for a few months before baptizing the child.

Here's the snippet! If you find it hard to read, the ancestry.com screenshot is below.

For reference, the more well-known Thomas Hickey's baptism record:

Sometimes I find myself imagining Bridget. One child in her hand, another in her womb, waiting for her husband to come home from the sea. When did she start losing hope? How did she feel, watching them grow up, looking like the father that Thomas will never remember and John had never met?