"Saint Patrick had the reports set down in writing"

"Saint Patrick had the reports set down in writing"

Lough Derg--Travelogue--Middle Ages--Purgatory

A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory

Ramón de Perellós

The Journey of Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory, p. 2

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

1398

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork. Translated by Alan Mac an Bhaird.

Citation for the purposes of criticism

Electronic text translation

English, translated from Spanish

Travelogue

DD_0561

54.6083, -7.8714

https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T100079A/

"And Saint Patrick had the reports set down in writing inside the church and afterwards he recommended to the people and recounted to them all the things which they had seen — by the testimony of those who had entered there, all these wondrous things; and that is why it is called the pit of Saint Patrick and purgatory since there one purges one's sins. And because it was first shown to Saint Patrick by Our Lord it is also called the Saint Patrick's purgatory. And in the aforesaid land of Ireland there are various monasteries of this order, great and solemn and larger than that of the purgatory."

The Journey of Viscount Ramon De Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory. Alan Mac an Bhaird (ed), First edition [i + 23 pp] CELT Cork (2012)