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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

Attempting to walk on water

"I very well remember that the first sly attempt I ever made at a miracle was in reference to Lough Derg ; I tried it by way of preparation for my pilgrimage..."

Tags: miracle, parody, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, skepticism, Station Island

"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

"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

A great thunder

"Now when I was shut in and had taken notice of the greatness of the Cave which I conceive to be about four cubits, I found the inner part thereof to turn and extend under me weak and shaking that it seemed as though it could not bear a man..."

Tags: miracle, pilgrimage, pilgrims, prison house, purgatory, Shane Leslie, supernatural, thunder

The demon Corna

"When we were within half a bow-shot of the said island of the Purgatory I saw a bird blacker than coal take flight ; it had not a single plume or feather on its back..."

Tags: Augustinians, birdlife, boating, Corna, crossing, demons, miracle, pilgrim crossing, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, superstition, transformation

The miracle of the floating crosses

"Among all the prodigies and all the great miracles which happened at Loch Derg, it is told in particular in those latter times..."

Tags: Clan O'Donnell, cross, Hugh O'Donnell, lake, miracle, purgatory, Shane Leslie, sixteenth century, Station Island, Tirconnell, vision, water

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

"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

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