Sunday, October 16th

Yesterday was Daddy's two year anniversary so I got up nice and early and headed downtown to explore and ended up at St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral which was built in the early 19th Century on a side street off of O'Connell Street (one of the main roads in Dublin). It is very unique for a church but still quite lovely.

You would not really be able to tell that it was a church, from the outside that is, because it looks like an official office building or such with the large pillars both inside and out. The only true symbol making it look like a church from the outside are the large statues on top of the building that, I learned, were only added in the 20th Century once the trouble from Protestants had decreased. 

The craziest part of my whole adventure of going to mass yesterday was that there were PROTESTS going on in front of it when I had first arrived. People with signs saying 'get the Catholic Church out of Ireland' and so many other horrible things. I have never experienced anything like that before but was glad when I walked back out after mass that they had left! 

I have been to a few different places for mass now, but this one was possibly the strangest.