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    St Magnus Cathedral dominates the skyline of Kirkwall, the main town of Orkney, a group of islands off the north coast of mainland Scotland. It is the...
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    Saint Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney, sometimes known as Magnus the Martyr, was Earl of Orkney from 1106 to about 1117. Magnus's grandparents, Thorfinn...
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    1137 initiated the construction of St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. The London church was not linked to St Magnus of Orkney before the 18th century, when...
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    Reformation in the 16th century. Glasgow Cathedral and St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney are the only medieval cathedrals in Scotland to have survived the Reformation...
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    Magnus Cathedral (Faroese: Kirkjubømúrurin, Magnus-katedralurin, Danish: Magnuskatedralen) is a ruined cathedral in the village of Kirkjubøur on the island...
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  • St Magnus Church, St Magnus' Church or St Magnus's Church may refer to one of several churches dedicated to a St Magnus: Magnus of Anagni Santi Michele...
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    martyrdom of Magnus Erlendsson, who was killed in April 1116 by his cousin Haakon Paulsson, resulted in the building of St Magnus Cathedral, still today...
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    natural harbour. Kirkwall has the seat of the Bishop of Orkney, and St. Magnus Cathedral is to be found there. It is also one of the island's ferry ports...
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  • using Garrioch and Garrick can be seen on adjacent gravestones in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney. People with the name Garrick include: Garrick...
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    Earl, and this became St Magnus Cathedral. When the cathedral, begun in 1137, was ready for consecration the relics of St Magnus were transferred there...
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    island is largely farmland and is known for St Magnus Church, dedicated or re-dedicated to Saint Magnus, who was killed on the island in 1117 by an axe...
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    divers place the White Ensign underwater at her stern. A memorial at St Magnus Cathedral in nearby Kirkwall displays a plaque dedicated to those who died...
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    Belfast Cathedral, also known as St Anne's Cathedral, is a Church of Ireland cathedral in Donegall Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is unusual in...
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  • Perth Cathedral of The Isles St Machar's Aberdeen Brechin Dornoch Dunblane Dunkeld St Giles' Edinburgh St Mungo's Glasgow St Magnus Kirkwall St Moluag's...
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    Scotland (HES) as second only to St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, as a surviving Norse church in Scotland. St Magnus's Church is located near the northwest...
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    a pilgrimage to Rome. The seat of the diocese was transferred to St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, in the later 12th century, though the Bishops of Orkney...
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    Kirkwall (category Towns with cathedrals in the United Kingdom)
    Crescent. At the heart of the town stands St Magnus Cathedral, which was founded in memory of Saint Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney 1108–1117 by Earl...
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    reliquaries of St. Olaf and St. Augustine (Eystein) were taken away, sent to Copenhagen and melted. The bones of St. Olaf were buried in the cathedral, and the...
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    The St Magnus International Festival is an annual, week-long arts festival which takes place at midsummer on the islands of Orkney, off the north coast...
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    the presbytery of St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney, ca. twelfth-thirteenth centuries, Norman and Romanesque. St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland:...
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    Haakon IV (category Burials at St Magnus Cathedral)
    the St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall for the winter; in spring, his body was exhumed and taken back to Norway, where he was buried in the Old Cathedral in...
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    Davies himself, is based on the novel Magnus by George Mackay Brown. The opera was first performed in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney on 18 June 1977...
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    Magnus Olafsson (Old Norse: Magnús Óláfsson; Norwegian and Danish: Magnus Olavsson; c. 1024 – 25 October 1047), better known as Magnus the Good (Old Norse:...
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    He was buried at St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, Orkney. A memorial to Rae, lying as in sleep upon the ground, is inside the cathedral. The memorial by...
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    of Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney was one to which Brown frequently turned, and it was the theme of his next novel, Magnus, published in 1973. St Magnus's...
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    Rögnvald Kali Kolsson (category Burials at St Magnus Cathedral)
    of acts of violence. His body was taken to Kirkwall and buried in St. Magnus Cathedral. Alleged miracles shall have happened at his grave as well as on...
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    Castle, Shropshire Hereford Cathedral, Herefordshire Arbroath Abbey, Angus Muchalls Castle, Aberdeenshire St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney Stonehaven Tolbooth...
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    the same time as the adjacent St Magnus Cathedral in the centre of Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland. It housed the cathedral's first bishop, William the Old...
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    martyrdom of Magnus Erlendsson, who was killed in April 1116 by his cousin Haakon Paulsson, resulted in the building of St Magnus Cathedral, still today...
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    Orkney and Shetland. It was based for almost all of its history at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall. The bishopric appears to have been suffragan of the Archbishop...
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