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Yeats' reflection on the affinity for bodies of water within the Irish poetic imagination and psyche

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

"Spirituum hic thermae, his Lethaea piacula : qui se Balneat hic, Stygii non timer amnis aquas / Here souls may bathe : Lethe's atonements here : And he who bathes, no Stygian flood need fear."

"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…

"The three days of fasting, the night spent in prison, the prayers prayed in the cold water at the Pilgrimage to-day, are all in glorious descent from the time of the Culdees..."

Jenny struggles with her sense of spirituality as she completes the circuits of the penitentian beds

As Jenny completes the stations at the penitential beds, she reflects on the power of repetition and prayer and feels the elements

Jenny discusses her expectations of the place compared to the reality and hopes that it will not be too commercialized, like Lourdes

An extract from Seamus Heaney's poem 'Station Island'

“‘I was considerably surprised when, upon my remarking, that with only one meal of bread and water in twenty four-hours, the pilgrims must become faint, the women with whom I was speaking, said, “Oh, no! the wine revives us, and gives us…
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