St Patrick’s Cathedral writes:
I thought that you might be interested in posting this amazing footage taken from a drone of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral…made by SkyPixels [using a Dji Phantom 3]
Union Jack festooned?
Pray/FIGHT!
Everything. As It Happens.
Really, what is the story with the Union flags? I thought it was Church of IRELAND, no?
Church of Ahland darling.
None of them are simple Union Jacks, but rather they are either regimental standards of various Irish regiments of the British Army or the personal standards of Knights of St Patrick. The official line is that they remain to commemorate the dead of the various Irish regiments.
he really knows how to work the altar. Look at that chalice work.
These are the colours of disbanded Irish regiments of the British Army. Royal Dublin Fusiliers etc. They are left slowing decaying over time in remembrance of these Irishmen/ women. http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/Military-History.aspx
…aka west brits
Well, the Church of Ireland was unashamedly Unionist and the great majority of its members would have considered themselves British, and most of its Northern Irish membership still would. The traditional prayers for the King were only replaced (and in the Republic only) in the late 1940s with more general forms for “our rulers” and “those in authority”.
How are things in 1965, pet?
yes!
it would be a nice gesture to give back one of the two underused cathedrals to the Catholics ..
Catholic churches aren’t exactly jammers either.
St Pats without a choir ???
“Amazing” my bottom!