"Lakes, Ponds, Wells, Trees, Stones, Crosses, Images, and Relicks"

"Lakes, Ponds, Wells, Trees, Stones, Crosses, Images, and Relicks"

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

Monograph

English

Religious treatise

DD_0460

54.6083, -7.8714

"It has been an endless Work to give an Account of all the Superstitious Places and Things in this Kingdom, of all the Lakes, Ponds, Wells, Trees, Stones, Crosses, Images, and Relicks, in which the Natives place a great deal of Vertue and Holiness, and to which they often go in Pilgrimage, with a firm belief that they shall procure great Blessings by Bathing in the Waters, or by Bowing down to, Kissing, Touching, nay, the very coming near of those Trumperies..."

Monograph