Lough Derg and Its Pilgrimages: With Map and IllustrationsJ. Dollard, 1879 - 208 pages |
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... Island - The Station Season - The Authorized Reli gious Exercises of the Pilgrimage - Explanatory Ob- servations on the Exercises - Most Rev. Dr. Donnelly Petitions the Holy See for Indulgences ... Station Island , " Lough CONTENTS . xi.
... Island - The Station Season - The Authorized Reli gious Exercises of the Pilgrimage - Explanatory Ob- servations on the Exercises - Most Rev. Dr. Donnelly Petitions the Holy See for Indulgences ... Station Island , " Lough CONTENTS . xi.
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... Island , " Lough Derg ... " Saint Patrick's Cross , " Station Island ... ... ... Map of Lough Derg ... : ... ... Page 18 4I 57 64 ... 68 opposite page 123 139 at the end PILGRIMAGE OF LOUGH DERG . CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY NOTICE .
... Island , " Lough Derg ... " Saint Patrick's Cross , " Station Island ... ... ... Map of Lough Derg ... : ... ... Page 18 4I 57 64 ... 68 opposite page 123 139 at the end PILGRIMAGE OF LOUGH DERG . CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY NOTICE .
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... station on the Bundoran branch of the Ennis- killen and Londonderry railway . In the hypothesis that the pilgrim ... Island ; but , whether in consequence of the edict. 16 PILGRIMAGE OF CHAPTER IV Templecarn-Lough Derg-Origin of the Name ...
... station on the Bundoran branch of the Ennis- killen and Londonderry railway . In the hypothesis that the pilgrim ... Island ; but , whether in consequence of the edict. 16 PILGRIMAGE OF CHAPTER IV Templecarn-Lough Derg-Origin of the Name ...
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... Island and an islet lying north - east of it , called by that name of bad omen , “ The Wildgoose Lodge . " The ... Station Island , Prior's Island , Allingham's Island , Ash Islands , Boat Islands , near the quay ; Stormy Islands ...
... Island and an islet lying north - east of it , called by that name of bad omen , “ The Wildgoose Lodge . " The ... Station Island , Prior's Island , Allingham's Island , Ash Islands , Boat Islands , near the quay ; Stormy Islands ...
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... Station Island second ; while the other islands of Lough Derg present no particular interest , or attraction to the historian or pilgrim . During the station season Lough Derg presents from all points of view , ' mid its dreary solitude ...
... Station Island second ; while the other islands of Lough Derg present no particular interest , or attraction to the historian or pilgrim . During the station season Lough Derg presents from all points of view , ' mid its dreary solitude ...
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Abbot ages amongst ancient Annals of Ulster Apostle appear Armagh Augustinian beds Bishop of Clogher Blessed boat Brigid called St Canons Regular Castlederg Catholic cemetery century coarb Dabheoc Devenish devotion diocese of Clogher Donegal Dublin ecclesiastical Enniskillen erected exercises faith Father favoured feet ferryman Franciscan grimage Henry of Saltrey holy places indulgence inscribed stones inscription Ireland Irish Island of Lough James knight lake legend Lough Derg Lough Erne M'Kenna Mac Nisse Magrath Maguire Molaisre monastery monks mountain O'Doherty O'Donovan parish Patricii Patrick Patrick's Church Patrick's Cross Patrick's Purgatory penance penitential Pettigo piety pilgrimage to Lough pilgrims pious places of pilgrimage Portcreevy prayer present priests Prior of Lough purgatorial cave Purgatory of St regarding religion religious retreat River Derg Rome ruins sacred Saints sanctuary of Lough seen shore Station Island stood Templecarn Termon tion tradition venerable visited Wakeman wall
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Page 101 - Eme, and the representative of a bishop for fifteen years before his death. He was a precious stone, a bright gem, a luminous star, a treasury of wisdom, and a fruitful branch of the canon, and a fountain of charity, meekness, and mildness ; a dove in purity of heart, and a turtle in chastity...
Page 120 - ... who paid eight pence each for admission to the island. Sir William further informs the Privy Council, that in order to hinder the seduced people from going any longer to this stronghold of Purgatory, and wholly to take away the abuse hereafter, he had directed the whole to be defaced and utterly demolished ; therefore the walls, works, foundations, vaults, &c. , he ordered to be rooted up, also the place called St. Patrick's bed, and the stone on which he knelt. These and all other superstitious...
Page 135 - Patrick's purgatory in the county of Donegal and of wells, to which pilgrimages are made by vast numbers at certain seasons, by which not only the peace of the public is greatly disturbed, but the safety of the government also hazarded, by the riotous and unlawful assembling together of many...
Page 84 - twas lonely, As if the loved tenant lay dead; — Ah, would it were death, and death only ! But no, the young false one had fled. And there hung the lute that could soften My very worst...
Page 178 - ... to give the slightest interest to the scene. The lake is considered to be about nine miles in circumference. As I descended towards the shore of the lake, I could see that the island, which is not quite a mile from the shore, was entirely covered with persons; and on the bank, which I soon reached, I found upwards of two hundred pilgrims waiting to be ferried over. They were generally respectably dressed. Some were sitting, some lying on the grass ; some, more impatient, were standing close to...
Page 135 - ... of wells, to which pilgrimages are made by vast numbers at certain seasons, by which, not only the peace of the public is greatly disturbed, but the safety of the government also hazarded by the riotous and unlawful assembling together of many thousands of papists to the said wells and other places: be it further enacted that all such meetings and assemblies shall be deemed and adjudged riots and unlawful assemblies, and punishable as such, in all or any persons meeting at such places as is aforesaid.
Page 193 - Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet :* for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Page 28 - Prior to those of the twelfth century we find very few monuments of ecclesiastical architecture in Ireland. This is not to be wondered at, because the general fashion of the country was to erect their buildings of wood, a fashion, which in great part continues to this day in several parts of Europe. As consequently their churches also were usually built of wood, it cannot be expected that there should be any remains of such churches at present.
Page 77 - ... service of the Church, such as practised by the secular clergy, with the observance of monastic regulations, which, although varying more or less, were, as I have often remarked, founded on the system, which St. Patrick had seen followed in Lerins and at Tours, and which he introduced into Ireland.