Browse Items · Digital Derg: A Deep Map

Location: Water Station, Station Island

Tags: commonly occurring location, Digital Derg Project, Geolocation, immersion, James L. Smith, key location, Lough Derg, place names, prayer, stations, water, water station

"A clear barometer"

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

Tags: concentration, pilgrimage, poetry, Rome, Seamus Heaney, Station Island, water, water station

Penitential beds and view of lake

View of waters past Sanctuary and penitential beds

Tags: Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, vista, water, water station, William Lawrence

Pilgrims at the stations

View of pilgrims on penitential beds and performing water station

Tags: immersion, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrimage, Robert French, Station Island, water, water station, William Lawrence

Pilgrims at the water station

Tags: immersion, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland, nineteenth century, Photographs, pilgrims, Robert French, Station Island, water, water station, William Lawrence

"He who bathes, no Stygian flood need fear."

"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."

Tags: bathing, Latin, Petrus Cadellus, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, water, water station

"I was just on the point of enjoying a little rest, when a man ringing a large hand-bell, came round, crying in a low, supernatural growl, which could be hear double the distance of the loudest shout - 'waken up, waken up, and come to prison.'..."

Tags: dormitory, immersion, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Station Island, water station, William Carleton

The acknowledgement of a rebaptised pilgrim

"The sufferings hitherto mentioned [on Station Island] do not carry off the whole mass of sins..."

Tags: baptism, Clogher, full immersion, lake stones, Philip Skelton, pilgrim staff, pilgrimage, prestige, Protestant critique, water station

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

A scriptural account of immersion in Lough Derg

"'As soon as we leave the grave or vault, we immediately plunge ourselves into the water, washing our heads and bodies to signify that we are washed and cleansed from the filth of sin, and have broke the dragon’s head in the waters..."

Tags: baptism, Christ, exegesis, immersion, pilgrimage, Red Sea, scripture, second-hand accounts, typology, water, water station

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