What is recorded here

Limerick’s lost Power tomb stood inside St John’s until the 1761 rebuilding, displaying twelve stone Apostles around a chest made by Thomas Power and Joanna Rice in 1622. Its warning told passing people to pause, remember death and pray for the buried couple. The church was altered, the monument disappeared, and only the carved idea of twelve witnesses remains.

The 'monument' of Thomas and Johanna Rice dated 1622 which seems not to have survived the rebuilding of St John's (LI005-017041-) in 1761 (Bradley et. al. 1989, 325-6; Westropp 1904-5, 358). Fitzgerald (1826-7,558-9) described this tomb as following; 'Before the alterations in 1763, it contained a handsome monument of the Power family, which was surrounded by figures of the twelve Apostles carved in stone, with the family arms, &c. and underneath was the following inscription THOMAS POWER, quondam civis Limericensis, et ejus uxor JOANNA RICE, hoc monumentum haeredibus suis construxerunt, in quo ambo sepeliuntur. Ora pro eis pius lector Quisquis eris qui transis, Sta, perlege, plora, Sum quod eris, fueramque quod es, Pro me precor ora. Hoc finito, A. D. 1622. Thomas Power, formerly citizen of Limerick, and Joanna his wife, erected this tomb for their posterity, in which both of them are interred. Pious reader, pray for them! Traveller, pause, improve your time I, like you, have seen my prime, What I am, thou soon must be, Then prepare to follow me. Finished in the year of our Lord, 1622. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 November 2019

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