Another of my highlights from visiting Killarney, the Franciscan Friary:
Got a nice surprise here: a beautiful high altar apparently untouched from post-Vatican II destruction:
Have just read somewhere on the Internet that the altar is of Flemish style.
If my memory serves me right (from what I read inside the church), the relic below is of an Irish monk who was murdered by Cromwellian troops:
Outside the Friary, there was a sense of continuity between the present and past through deceased monks being buried in graves near the crucifix above:
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