S. Fintan and S. Fiacre and S. John Nepomuc and S. Thomas Aquinas and
S. Ives of Brittany and S. Michan and S. Herman-Joseph and the three patrons
of holy youth S. Aloysius Gonzaga and S. Stanislaus Kostka and S. John
Berchmans and the saints Gervasius, Servasius and Bonifacius and S. Bride and
S. Kieran and S. Canice of Kilkenny and S. Jarlath of Tuam and S. Finbarr and
S. Pappin of Ballymun and Brother Aloysius Pacificus and Brother Louis
Bellicosus and the saints Rose of Lima and of Viterbo and S. Martha of Bethany
and S. Mary of Egypt and S. Lucy and S. Brigid and S. Attracta and S. Dympna
and S. Ita and S. Marion Calpensis and the Blessed Sister Teresa of the Child
Jesus and S. Barbara and S. Scholastica and S. Ursula with eleven thousand
virgins. And all came with nimbi and aureoles and gloriae, bearing palms and
harps and swords and olive crowns, in robes whereon were woven the blessed
symbols of their efficacies, inkhorns, arrows, loaves, cruses, fetters, axes, trees,
bridges, babes in a bathtub, shells, wallets, shears, keys, dragons, lilies,
buckshot, beards, hogs, lamps, bellows, beehives, soupladles, stars, snakes,
anvils, boxes of vaseline, bells, crutches, forceps, stags’ horns, watertight
boots, hawks, millstones, eyes on a dish, wax candles, aspergills, unicorns.
And as they wended their way by Nelson’s Pillar, Henry Street, Mary Street,
Capel Street, Little Britain Street, chanting the introit in Epiphania Domini
which beginneth Surge, illuminare and thereafter most sweetly the gradual
Omnes which saith de Saba venient they did divers wonders such as casting out
devils, raising the dead to life, multiplying fishes, healing the halt and the blind,
discovering various articles which had beed mislaid, interpreting and fulfilling
the scriptures, blessing and prophesying. And last, beneath a canopy of cloth of
gold came the reverend Father O’Flynn attended by Malachi and Patrick. And
when the good fathers had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard
Kiernan and Co, limited, 8,9 and 10 little Britain street, wholesale grocers,
wine and brandy shippers, licensed for the sale of beer, wine and spirits for
consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the
mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the
capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the
spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water
and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit
therein. And entering he blessed the viands and the beverages and the company
of all the blessed answered his prayers.
— Adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domini.
