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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Liverpool |
 | | In addition to the manliness of the Lancashire character and the example of sacrifice given by the Lancashire gentry, the Gerards, Blundells, Molyneuxes, Andertons, Cliftons, Scarisbricks, Gillows, the close connexion which Lancashire has always had with Ireland has done much for this preservation of the faith. |
 | | Traces of this connexion are seen in the old St. Patrick's Cross of Liverpool which was supposed to mark the spot where St. |
 | | Patrick preached before sailing to Ireland, and in the pre-Reformation chalice still preserved at Fernyhalgh, near Preston, which bears the date of 1529 and an inscription testifying that it was given by "Dosius Maguire, Chieftain of Fermanagh". |
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