The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . Treaty 8tone. Limerick Inscription; * The Treaty of Limerick. Signed a. u. 1691 astery and school at Mungret. This school became sofamous that at one time it had 1,500 students. AnofTshoot from Mungret was a hermitage at Kill-Mun-chin, near Limerick. Thither St. Munchin retired, andthere he spent his closing years, and, no doubt, fromthis hermitage and from Mungret the spiritual needsof the surrounding district were supplied. But as yetthere wa
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . Treaty 8tone. Limerick Inscription; * The Treaty of Limerick. Signed a. u. 1691 astery and school at Mungret. This school became sofamous that at one time it had 1,500 students. AnofTshoot from Mungret was a hermitage at Kill-Mun-chin, near Limerick. Thither St. Munchin retired, andthere he spent his closing years, and, no doubt, fromthis hermitage and from Mungret the spiritual needsof the surrounding district were supplied. But as yetthere was no city of Limerick, and no diocese till afterthe Danes came. Quick to discern the advantageous. bT John s Cathedral, Limerick the tenth century by Brian Boroihme, who expelledthem from the city, and they were readmitted onlyas subjects and tributaries of the kings of they became Christians, though they stilldisliked the Irish, and had their bishops at Limerickconsecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury andsubject to him. It is said there was a Bishop of Limerick about 1050,but his name and acts are unknown. We do know,however, that there was a bishop at Limerick about1100, a remarkable man, Gillebert by name. Edu-cated at Bangor, he had been abbot there, and then,having travelled abroad, he met Anselm, Archbishopof Canterbury, at Rouen. Perhaps it was throughAnselms influence that he became Bishop of Limerickand also Apostolic delegate. Probably it was underAnselms advice that he endeavoured to introduceunity of liturgy in the Irish Church, instead of the be-wildering diversity of Offices and Masses which pre-vailed. He presided at the Synod of Rathbreasail(111
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