Bangor Abbey was established by Saint Comgall in 558 in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland and was famous for its learning and austere rule. It is not...
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Ireland's sixth city. Bangor Abbey was an important and influential monastery founded in the 6th century by Saint Comgall. Bangor grew during the 17th...
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Saint Malachy (section Abbot of Bangor)
at Lismore. He spent three years there. In 1123 the coarb of Bangor Abbey died. Bangor was the principal religious site in the north-east of Ireland...
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Saint Mirin (category People from Bangor, County Down)
known Columba of Iona and disciple of Saint Comgall, he was prior of Bangor Abbey in County Down, Ireland before making his missionary voyage to Scotland...
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Antiphonary of Bangor (Antiphonarium Monasterii Benchorensis) is an ancient Latin manuscript, supposed to have been originally written at Bangor Abbey in modern-day...
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Byzantine Empire. December 23 – The Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés is dedicated by Germain, bishop of Paris. The Bangor Abbey is founded by the Irish abbot...
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winds. It is not known if the name comes from Bangor Abbey in Northern Ireland, one of the most famous abbeys in Western Christianity, from where it is known...
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Stephen McWhirter (category People from Bangor, County Down)
Archdeacon of Killala and Achonry Incumbent Assumed office 2017 Personal details Born 1964 Bangor Abbey Spouse The Rev. Jennifer McWhirter Children 2...
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with Bangor Abbey in the tenth century. It was somewhat revitalized in 1135 when St. Malachy of Armagh established a group of Augustinians in the abbey, but...
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Eucharistic hymn recorded in the Antiphonary of Bangor. "Sancti venite" was composed at Bangor Abbey in the 7th century AD, making it the oldest known...
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Christianity at this time. Columbanus was born in 543 and studied at Bangor Abbey until c. 590, when he travelled to the continent with twelve companions...
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Council, is a Grade A listed building. The site was first occupied by Bangor Abbey which was founded by St. Comgall in 558 and was home to Franciscan friars...
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Saint Gall (category Abbey of Saint Gall)
Comgall of Bangor Abbey. The monastery at Bangor had become renowned throughout Europe as a great centre of Christian learning. Studying in Bangor at the...
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Comgall (category People from Bangor, County Down)
"Venerable Comgall, Abbot of Bangor in Ireland", Pravoslavie.ru, May 23, 2014 "History of Bangor Abbey", Parish of Bangor Abbey Archived 6 March 2015 at the...
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Romanas Bulatovas believes that the Táin was originally composed at Bangor Abbey between 630 and 670 AD, there is evidence that it had a far older oral...
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Sillan (category People from Bangor, County Down)
Irish: Síoláin) (died 608 or 610) was early Irish saint and abbot of Bangor Abbey, Bangor, County Down. He was recorded as being a disciple and second or third...
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(Downpatrick) and from the 9th century their main religious site was Bangor Abbey. The Dál Fiatach are claimed as being descended from Fiatach Finn mac...
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Christianity. Máel Ruba, grand-nephew of Comgall of Bangor, (whose father was Pictish), founded Applecross Abbey in 672 in what was then Pictish territory. A...
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Columbanus (category Burials at Bobbio Abbey)
Columbanus composed a commentary on the Psalms. Columbanus then moved to Bangor Abbey where he studied to become a teacher of the Bible. He was well-educated...
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and 2018. In 1959 Webb was commissioned to paint the altarpiece for Bangor Abbey, which stands 25 ft high and took two years to complete. It depicts Christ...
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Canterbury Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-1853114939 "History of Bangor Abbey", Parish of Bangor Abbey Archived 6 March 2015 at the Wayback Machine Grattan-Flood...
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ancient or carrying such well-attested historical importance as nearby Bangor Abbey, there is little doubt that in the period of the Celtic church, when...
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King of Ireland. Inspired by Máel Máedóc Ua Morgair, reformist head of Bangor Abbey, the 1111 Synod of Ráth Breasail sought to reduce the power of the monasteries...
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Mochoemoc (category People from Bangor, County Down)
of Killeedy, who raised him. He became a monk in Bangor Abbey under the abbot Saint Comgall of Bangor. He was the founding abbot of Liath-Mochoemoc (Liathmore)...
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of the Tudor conquest of Ireland. The most prestigious of which was Bangor Abbey, of ancient Gaelic origin, which was under the Augustinian Canons Regular...
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Monastery Bangor Abbey Bright Monastery (approx.) Burren (approx.) Castleboy Preceptory (approx.) Cill-mBain (approx.) Clonduff Monastery Comber Abbey Donnaghmore...
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Saint Gall. Born in Leinster, Deicolus and his brother, Gall, studied at Bangor Abbey in County Down. He was selected to be one of the twelve followers to...
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of Dromore Saint Colman of Cloyne Saint Colman MacDuagh Saint Comgall of Bangor Saint Finbarr of Cork Saint Finnian of Clonard Saint Laserian of Leighlin...
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to Celsus. His first sees were Down and Connor, and he was located at Bangor Abbey. On the death of Celsus in 1129, Malachy was nominated as his successor...
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preserved there and held in due reverence." A disciple of St Comgall at Bangor Abbey in Ireland. Born in Poitiers in France, the son of an officer at the...
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