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An early description of the stations of Station Island

"An early writer describing the place, says — 'As soon as the pilgrims come within sight of the holy island, they pull off their shoes and stockings, and uncover their heads, and walk thus with their beads in one hand, and sometimes a cross in the…

Tags: prayer, second-hand accounts, St. Patrick, Station Island, stations, water, water station

Another fictitious Lough Derg, Coronea, County Cavan

"A little tract, that bears the title of 'Hindooism in Ireland,' notices a Station which was some time since established at Coronea, county of Cavan..."

Tags: baptism, Coronea, dryness, St. Patrick, stations, substitution, water, water station

Drinking the "wine" of Lough Derg

“‘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…

Tags: cauldron, drinking, nutrition, second-hand accounts, Station Island, stations, water, wine

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