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"Floating on some miracle raft"

"Down below [Dabheoc's Seat], Station Island rose up in imperial grandeur against its background of low hills..."

Tags: Alice Curtayne, Basilica, colour landscape, hills, illusion, Isle of Patmos, light vision, miracle, revelation, St. Dabheoc, St. Dabheoc's Seat, St. John, Station Island, twentieth century, vista

"A miracle! - A miracle!"

Knox criticises the superstitious hysteria for miraculous cures

Tags: Catholicism, crowds, cure, devotional activities, James Spencer Knox, miracle, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Travelogue

"So long as the Church of Rome finds dupes"

Knox reflects on the cause of the "fraud" of miracles

Tags: Catholic Church, James Spencer Knox, miracle, negative description, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Protestantism, Rome, sectarianism, Travelogue

The snake of Lough Patrick and Lough Peter

"There are no holy wells in this district but there are two holy lakes called Lough Patrick and Lough Peter. These lakes are in the townland of Drumlougher and form the boundary between County Monaghan and County Armagh. St Patrick's stone is in a…

Tags: cattle, County Donegal, County Monaghan, cure, Drumlougher, Folklore, hills, Lough Patrick, Lough Peter, miracle, Oral History, pilgrimage, snake, St. Patrick

"The mark of St. Patrick's knee"

An account of Lough Derg from a late-nineteenth-century pilgrim.

Tags: description, etymology, Fair Lake, Irish Monthly, miracle, monster, pilgrimage, purgatory, Red Lake, rocks, St. Patrick, Station Island

"The little islands of Pan held in the crooked elbow of the lake"

The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lough Derg', detailing a visit in 1941

Tags: County Donegal, distraction, embodied experience, islands, location, miracle, mountains, Patrick Kavanagh, penance, poetry, poverty, remoteness, repetition, rural landscape, spiritual experience, twentieth century, vista

"The dark place reserved for sin"

"KING. What would'st thou?

PATRICK. Come with me..."

Tags: grimness, miracle, mountains, negative description, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, play, Spanish Golden Age

Fictitious Lough Derg in the Chapel of Monea, Diocese of Clogher

"We cannot permit the circumstance of a Roman Catholic priest constructing a fictitious Lough Dearg in his Chapel for the use of his people, when prevented going to the real one, to pass without a word or two of remark..."

Tags: baptism, charlatanism, Clogher, fakery, miracle, Monea, Rome, water, water station

Knight Owen crosses to Saints Island

“When [Owen] had sufficiently recovered his strength he vowed to remain as a religious on Saint's Island for the rest of his life..."

Tags: causeway, Celtic revival, Knight Owen, miracle, Saints Island, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, vision

"The fame of that place has been so scattered through European parts that it seems to go on wings"

"It is more certain than certainty that in the northern shore of Ireland a place horrible by its terrors was found by him and is generally called St Patrick's Purgatory. The fame of that place has been so scattered through European parts that it…

Tags: Europe, fame, miracle, reputation, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, Thyraeus

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