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Waterford 1470: Dean John Collyn and the Chantry of St Saviour, Michael Byrne

Waterford 1470: Dean John Collyn and the Chantry of St Saviour, Michael Byrne

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This book tells the story of how a remarkable chapel dedicated to St Saviour came to be built in Waterford Cathedral in 1470. The building of St Saviour’s chapel and the establishing of a chantry to ensure that prayers for the dead were offered regularly there was the work of Fr John Collyn, dean of the cathedral since 1441. In his project to establish the chantry and build his chapel Collyn worked closely with James Rice, a late medieval ‘merchant prince’ of Waterford. Rice and Collyn dominated the affairs of the city in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Never before (and possibly never since) had Waterford been controlled by two men of such vision, determination and ambition.

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