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St. Finbarre's Cathedral

In my first week in Ireland Grace and I went out to St. Finbarr's Cathedral in Cork. I hadn't really seen a cathedral before, so I was pretty impressed.

Grace and the Church

The problem with Cathedrals is they're so big it's difficult to convey the sense of their size in a photo. Nonetheless we tried.

Two Step shot of the front of St. Finbarr's

Try and combine these photo's in your mind and remember that really you see the first photo when you look straight ahead and the second when you crane your head up.

The Golden Angel

Legend has it this Angel used to hold two horns. One of them fell off and a story developed that when the other fell it would be the end of the world. Well, some joker came along and stole that second horn and everyone decided that didn't count so they put a new horn up.

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