Diocesan News
Marking Pentecost with St Nicholas Schola Cantorum
The Virtual Voices of St Nicholas Schola Cantorum, in Galway, have celebrated the feast of Pentecost with Grayston Ives’ lambent setting of a text from George Herbert’s poem Whitsunday – Listen Sweet Dove (1973).
St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church is in the centre of Galway in the west of Ireland and marks its 700th anniversary in 2020. It is the church at the heart of the city with the city and the people at its heart. An Anglican church, the Rector is currently the Very Rev Lynda Peilow, the first woman appointed to the role.
St Nicholas’, which is the largest medieval parish church in Ireland in continuous use as a place of worship, is dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra, patron saint of children, and of mariners. There is some disagreement about when it was built, but it was certainly finished by 1320 – and so we celebrate our momentous birthday in 2020.
St Nicholas’ Schola Cantorum was founded in 2012, a modern reimagining of the ancient college of singers, established in 1486 and which gives the church its special title. In 2012, the Rector, Select Vestry and Parish decided to revive the ancient college, honouring the church’s musical heritage, and intending a dynamic community–involved future.
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