Four months after the church was consecrated a church school was opened, the forerunner of the present St Andrew's Primary School.
In November 2010, Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the church as a basilica and held Mass there before 7,000 people.
The archbishop of Salzburg consecrated a church at Nitra about 828, and in 845 Regensburg baptized 14 chieftains from Bohemia, while Mojmír's Moravia apparently had fairly frequent contacts with Passau.
The aged abbot of Santa María de Huerta, bishop Martín de Finojosa (later canonized), consecrated the church in September 1213 and died days later.
According to a sentence in three of the eleven extant manuscripts of the Conversion, Archbishop Adalram of Salzburg (r. 821 836) consecrated a church for Pribina "on his estate at a place over the Danube called Nitrava" at an unspecified date.
The pallium accompanying that letter indicates Justus was archbishop by that time, and the duration of Mellitus's archiepiscopate means that even if Bede's dates are somewhat wrong in other particulars, Eadbald was converted no earlier than 621, and no later than April 624, since Mellitus consecrated a church for Eadbald before his death in that month.
American priests who would never have become bishops in their own churches were consecrated by the churches of Uganda, Rwanda and Nigeria and returned to the US to try to take their congregations and buildings out of the American Episcopal church.
The diocese plans to consecrate the church, in Garden Grove, as a Catholic cathedral.
According to Sally Harper, leader of the Bangor Pontifical Project (have a look at more images from the book here), this is an original piece of medieval satire the scurrilous scribe included beside the chant, which would have been sung to consecrate a church bell.
Paley and Austin of Lancaster designed the present church, the foundation stone was laid in 1871 and the church consecrated in 1873.
