The miracle of the floating crosses

The miracle of the floating crosses

Lough Derg--Station Island--Miracle--Vision

"Among all the prodigies and all the great miracles which happened at Loch Derg, it is told in particular in those latter times..."

Shane Leslie, 1885-1971

Translated from the Irish by Father Grosjean, S.J., Burgundian Library, MS. 5057-59, Leslie, Shane, Saint Patrick's Purgatory: A Record from History and Literature, p. 47

Burns Oats and Washbourne Ltd, London

1932

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"Among all the prodigies and all the great miracles which happened at Loch Derg, it is told in particular in those latter times, when Hugh son of Manus O'Donnell was Lord of Tirconnell and Maurice son of Toirdhealbhach Magrath was Prior of Lough Derg that there were many pilgrims, both clerics and laymen, on the round of the Purgatory so that it was necessary on account of their number to bless the Church of Patrick's Bed and that people were put in it as if in one of the Caves, and that all those good men saw, both clerics and laymen, at midday twelve radiant crosses of golden hue, and one big and very wide Cross in front of them, floating evenly on the surface of the Lake round Purgatory Island, after the manner of a procession, before the group of pilgrims. And her are some of the pilgrims who remember the happening, the Canon who was called Niall Mac Tighearnain and he was present at the prodigy with Tadhg Buidhe Magrath. At the beginning Oh'Eilidhe Archbishop of Tuam made twice the round of Patrick's Purgatory, once for himself and once for the Pope and also the Mac Gafraigh Seamus Felim mac Gafraigh et coeteri plures."

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