Saul Church (Downpatrick)

Reference code: HOYFM.ACL2024.10
Level of description: Fonds
Title: Saul Church (Downpatrick)
Scope and content: Contents: Saul Church Books of Common Prayer, Bible, and Service Books : Tradition holds that St. Patrick landed a few miles from this site in 432 AD; contains a book of common prayer, Administration of Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the United Church of England and Ireland, published in 1845; printed in Dublin by George and John Grierson; Holy Bible and Apocrypha of Saul Church; published in 1859; missing cover page; 1859; another two books of common prayer, Administration of Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the United Church of England and Ireland, published in 1845 and 1859 respectively; first printed in Dublin by George and John Grierson, the second in Dawson Street, Dublin, by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode; the first one contains a note of revision by the Archdeacon of Armagh due to the Irish Act of Uniformity from 1839; a fourth book of common prayer, Administration of Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of Ireland in 1878; approved by General Synod; in worse condition than the previous two, missing hard cover wrapping; a book of The Sacraments according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland; printed in 1850 in Dublin by George and John Grierson.