Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

Location: Water Station, Station Island

Tags: commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, immersion, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, place names, prayer, stations, water, water station

"Lakes, Ponds, Wells, Trees, Stones, Crosses, Images, and Relicks"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Tags: cross, devotional activities, eighteenth century, holy well, immersion, John Richardson, Protestant critique, relics, superstition, water

Pilgrims at the stations

View of pilgrims on penitential beds and performing water station

Tags: immersion, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrimage, Robert French, Station Island, water, water station, William Lawrence

Pilgrims at the water station

Tags: immersion, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, water, water station, William Lawrence

"I was just on the point of enjoying a little rest, when a man ringing a large hand-bell, came round, crying in a low, supernatural growl, which could be hear double the distance of the loudest shout - 'waken up, waken up, and come to prison.'..."

Tags: dormitory, immersion, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Station Island, water station, William Carleton

A visit in the reign of Henry VIII

"The record of many others who followed the same perilous quest survives. The Sire de Beaujeu, Louis de Sue, Louis of France, Malatesta of Hungary, and, not least, there came in the reign of King Henry VIII. the Cardinal Legate to England, who made a…

Tags: baptism, Celtic revival, Clogher, English visitors, famous visitors, immersion, mythology, pilgrims, romance, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, St. Patrick, water

A scriptural account of immersion in Lough Derg

"'As soon as we leave the grave or vault, we immediately plunge ourselves into the water, washing our heads and bodies to signify that we are washed and cleansed from the filth of sin, and have broke the dragon’s head in the waters..."

Tags: baptism, Christ, exegesis, immersion, pilgrimage, Red Sea, scripture, second-hand accounts, typology, water, water station

Full immersion at the water station

"After quitting the prison, and before leaving the island, it was formerly the practice to go into the water, and, being stark naked, wash their whole bodies, and more particularly the head, to signify that they were entirely cleansed from their…

Tags: baptism, cleansing, discontinued practices, immersion, Philip Dixon Hardy, pilgrimage, Station Island, swimming, water station

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