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St Patrick's Purgatory is an ancient pilgrimage site on Station Island in Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland. According to legend, the site dates from the fifth century, when Christ showed Saint Patrick a cave, sometimes referred to as a pit or a well , on Station Island that was an entrance to Purgatory . [ 2 ]
The Church of St. Patrick is a parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located in Richmondtown, Staten Island, New York City.. The church was established at the county seat in 1862 as a mission of St. Joseph's, Rossville, becoming the fifth Catholic church on Staten Island. [1]
Many of the modern Catholic pilgrimage rituals at Lough Derg are focused on devotion to St. Dabheog: including the short hike to a pre-Christian Bronze Age burial site (known as Dabheog's Chair or Seat) on a hill overlooking Lough Derg, and the meditation upon one of the beehive cells on Station Island which is dedicated to the saint. [7]
Station Island is the sixth collection of original poetry written by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. It is dedicated to the Northern Irish playwright Brian Friel. The collection was first published in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1984 by Faber & Faber and was then published in America by ...
The first St. Patrick’s Day parade was held in the U.S. The first recorded parade on the Catholic Feast Day of St. Patrick was held on March 17, 1601, in a Spanish colony in modern-day St ...
St Patrick's Purgatory, a pilgrimage site in County Donegal; St Patrick's (civil parish, Clare and Limerick) St Patrick's Street in Cork; St. Patrick's, Carlow College, a third level liberal arts college in Carlow; Dublin St Patrick's (UK Parliament constituency), a constituency in the British Parliament that was dissolved in 1922
St. Patrick's Day marks the day Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, died in 461, but many of the lively traditions we know today began with Irish Americans.
St. Patrick's, or Kilquane (Irish: Cill Chuáin [1]), is a civil parish situated on both banks of the River Shannon near the city of Limerick in Ireland. It is unusual in that it is distributed over three baronies : Bunratty Lower , Clanwilliam and the barony of the City of Limerick.