2-889-513 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Synod at Thurles [in Ireland] - the Procession from the College to the Cathedral , 1850. Clergy in a '...procession from the College to the Cathedral. As it was impossible to do more than select a part of the line, which must have extended at least a mile in length, our Artist has chosen that part of it which shows a few of the Bishops, the Abbot from Mount Melleray, the heads of the religious houses, and the commencement of the theologians, when passing through the crowd assembled on the road, as the procession entered the yard of the Cathedral, where the people knelt down to receive the blessings of the Bishops'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.