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"It is remarkable how completely the exterior world is shut out. Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it..."

"Many a pilgrim who goes to the Island for the first time remarks that the most surprising feature of the place is its obscure familiarity..."

"Most pilgrims develop for this rocky island and its harsh routine an affection that really defies explanation..."

Alice Curtayne describes how traveling to Station Island is like stepping back into the fifth century

"The repetition of the baptismal vow [before St. Brigid's Cross] is a reaching back again towards baptismal innocence and is the usual ritual of retreats..."

The repetitive power of an imagined Celtic Christian pilgrimage and prayer in the context of Irish national myth making
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