Ferns Cathedral
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The Cathedral Church of St Edan is a cathedral of the Church of Ireland in Ferns, County Wexford in Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. Until 1949, the designation of the cathedra
Ferns Cathedral 2009 09 28
Ruin of the medieval chancel
The cathedral's nave
Tomb of John of St John, mid 13th-century
Máedóc of Ferns
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Saint Máedóc of Ferns, also known as Saint Aidan, Saint Madoc or Saint Mogue, was an Irish saint. He was the first Bishop of Ferns in County Wexford, and the founder of thirty churches.
Ferns Cathedral
…Cashel and Ossory. The original medieval Roman Catholic cathedral was built by Bishop St. John in the 1230s. A Catholic cathedral, also dedicated to Saint Aidan, was erected in Enniscorthy in the nineteenth century to a design by Pugin. The building was burnt down in Elizabethan times by the O'Byrnes of Wicklow…
Stained glass window of elderly Saint Áedan in profile at the Church of the Assumption, Wexford
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