"All around it is the glint and stir of water"

"All around it is the glint and stir of water"

Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Alice Curtayne

"Many pilgrims surveying the crowds during the night vigil promise themselves that, on their following night of freedom, they will look down from their cubicle windows at the fascination of the scene, when the people emerge and group themselves in the loggias..."

Alice Curtayne, 1898-1981

Curtayne, Alice, Lough Derg: St. Patrick’s Purgatory, p. 176

Burns Oats and Washbourn, Ltd., London and Dublin

1944

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"Many pilgrims surveying the crowds during the night vigil promise themselves that, on their following night of freedom, they will look down from their cubicle windows at the fascination of the scene, when the people emerge and group themselves in the loggias. The many windows of the lighted Basilica shine like amber panels in the darkness and all around it is the glint and stir of water. It is like the setting of some superb operatic scene. But I never knew a pilgrim to realize this pleasant project. The fresh air that blows across the lake, bringing the Atlantic ozone from Donegal Bay, makes sleep on the second night and impervious and inescapable necessity when added to the fact that the average pilgrim has put in about forty hours without sleep."

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