Laurent Vital learns of Purgatory in Kinsale

Laurent Vital learns of Purgatory in Kinsale

Lough Derg--Travelogue--Kinsale--Pilgrimage

A sixteenth-century account by Laurent Vital of information gathered during the visit of Archduke Ferdinand to Kinsale

Laurent Vital

Laurent Vital, Archduke Ferdinand's visit to Kinsale in Ireland, p. 290

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

1517-18

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork. Translated into English and donated to CELT by Dorothy Convery.

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English, translated from French

Travelogue

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"During conversation at table with the brother of our hostess, it came into my mind to say to him that I had heard tell in the past, that in Ireland there was a place called St Patrick's Cave where one made penance; he assured me that was true. He said yes. But he only knew by hearsay. But if we wanted to know more about it, he would gladly ask his sister who had been there in her youth, when she was to marry at the age of fifteen years. I, wanting to know the truth about it, prayed that he would ask his sister what she found there and tell us what it was like. That sister gave him a long prologue. And when this one had finished, I asked him where and in what region was St Patrick's Cave, what did one need to do to go there, why would one go there, what would one find, see or hear there, and how long would one stay there. After he had consulted his sister about it and she had responded to my questions, he said that this place was very distant from there, four score leagues, that is to say very close to the sea, in the Scotch Quarter. The reason for going there was to earn full pardons from pain and guilt, available on certain days of the year to all those who have confessed and repented with a contrite heart."

Archduke Ferdinand's visit to Kinsale in Ireland, an extract from Le Premier Voyage de Charles-Quint en Espagne, de 1517 à 1518. Dorothy Convery (ed), Electronic edition, CELT Project, Cork (2012)