"Every Body knows how excessively the Irish are addicted to Pilgrimage"

"Every Body knows how excessively the Irish are addicted to Pilgrimage"

Lough Derg--Protestant critique--Treatise--Purgatory

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

John Richardson, 1664-1747

The Great Folly, superstition and idolatry of Pilgrimages in Ireland, especialy of that to St. Patrick's Purgatory: together with an account of the loss that the publick sustaineth thereby, truly and impartially represented, Preface

J. Hyde, Dublin

1727

Digitised by Collections numérisées - Université de Rennes 2

Public domain

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English

Religious treatise

DD_0458

54.6083, -7.8714

"Every Body knows how excessively the Irish are addicted to Pilgrimage, there being few Parishes in the Kingdom, in which there is not some Thing or other, to which they frequently Resort on a Superstitious account. Of this the Parliament thought fit to take Notice, very justly and wisely Observing, That the Corruptions of Popery are thereby greatly increased and upheld. The Invocation of Saints, Worshiping of Relicks, the Delusions about Purgatory, Works of Supererogation, and Transfering the pretended Merits of one to another, being apparently kept up and propagated by this Practice."

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