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  • Saint Ciarán mac Luaigne or Ciarán of Saigir St. Kieran was an early Irish bishop and patron saint of Ossory.

    St. Kieran's Church Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2010

  • Ossory: The Latin Mass Society of Ireland organised the first Mass with ecclesiastical approval in the Ossory diocese in February 2008.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • Ossory: The Latin Mass Society of Ireland organised the first Mass with ecclesiastical approval in the Ossory diocese in February 2008.

    The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum 2009

  • Cambrensis will have it that Irishmen may become wolves; and Nennius asserts point-blank that “the descendants of wolves are still in Ossory;” they retransform themselves into wolves when they bite.

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • In 1788, Father Phelan, the Franciscan Superior at Waterford, wrote to Archbishop Troy of Dublin: I was advised to write to Doctor Lanagan [Bishop of Ossory] in favour of Mr Ewer & had that interest been gain'd, Power must, all at once, fall to the ground: Viz a lady of great influence lives in Feriland by name, a Widow Weston a Roman Catholik & a native of Kilkeny [Power's home county].

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • Ossory challenged him to fight in Chelsea fields, he crossed the water to Battersea, where he pretended to wait for his lordship; and then complained to the house of lords, that Ossory had given him the rendezvous, and did not keep his appointment.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Ossory church, or the time would fail for compliance with one of the stipulations insisted on in the Trust.

    No Name 2003

  • On the sixteenth of next month the Banns must be put up in Ossory church, or you will lose the money.

    No Name 2003

  • Ossory, Essex,” chimed in the postmaster, throwing the letter back into the box.

    No Name 2003

  • She wrote in a great hurry, and she is not quite certain whether she added the name of the post-town, ‘Ossory.’

    No Name 2003

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