St. Egidien
Baroque church raised on the site of a medieval Irish Benedictine abbey, with surviving Gothic chapels.
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This guide to St. Egidien in Nuremberg starts with the city's first monastery, founded around eleven forty on a royal estate and staffed by Irish monks from the Scots Monastery in Regensburg. It follows their fortunes through the fifteenth century, the Reformation and a claim made in the name of Mary, Queen of Scots. Stand in front of the facade on Egidienplatz, then step inside to look up at the stucco.
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