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Full immersion at the water station

"After quitting the prison, and before leaving the island, it was formerly the practice to go into the water, and, being stark naked, wash their whole bodies, and more particularly the head, to signify that they were entirely cleansed from their…

Tags: baptism, cleansing, discontinued practices, immersion, Philip Dixon Hardy, pilgrimage, Station Island, swimming, water station

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

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

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

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

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

The call to prison

"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

"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