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Show "Adam and Eve's Church," Dublin. A marked feature about the churches in Dublin Is the number of people who go to daily Mass. In all the churches there is Mass daily every hour from early morning until 11 o'clock, when the last Mass Is said. In one church, however, the Franciscan or as it is generally called, Adam and Eve's Church the last Mass every day is at 12. As I mentioned the name by which the Franciscan church is best known, viz., Adam and Eve's church, it may be of interest to remark that the name is a link with the days of persecution and a reminder of fhem. In penal times, to our fathers in the faith, churches were forbidden, and various were the devices to which they had recourse In order to outwit the authorities. au-thorities. A well known public house (saloon) was called by the name "Adam and Eve." In the rear of the house Mass was said: people entered, apparently appar-ently to refresh themselves, in reality to assist at the Holy Sacrifice. One day during Mass the floor collapsed, when several persons were killed. It was during the viceroyalty of the well known Lord Chesterfield, and he was so much struck by the accident that he gave permission for the opening of a new church. The church was built on the site of the old public house; the old name clung to it, hence the Franciscan church is tiil known by the name of the Church of Adam and Eve. |