The heritage of prayer

The heritage of prayer

Lough Derg--Heritage--Romanticism--Prayer

"The three days of fasting, the night spent in prison, the prayers prayed in the cold water at the Pilgrimage to-day, are all in glorious descent from the time of the Culdees..."

Shane Leslie, 1885-1971

Leslie, Shane, The Story of St. Patrick’s Purgatory, pp. vi-vii

B. Herder book co., St. Louis, Mo. and London

1917

Digitised by Google, sponsored by Harvard University

Public domain

Monograph

English

History of Ireland

Text

DD_0052

54.609058,-7.871014

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044020440756

"The three days of fasting, the night spent in prison, the prayers prayed in the cold water at the Pilgrimage to-day, are all in glorious descent from the time of the Culdees. They are the strong customs of a strong people — a native growth that never found root under the warm skies of Italy. Is it not written in the Martyrology of Donegal? The little quatrains that celebrate the Celtic Saints can be understood by the pilgrims of to-day. There was Saint Ciaran who was often in a vat of water for the love of God, Saint Fiontain who ate but bread of barley corn and drank but water of earthly clay; Saint Cormac, Bishop, King and Martyr, who sang thrice fifty psalms in the fountain of Lough Tarb. The spirit of such heroes of prayer lingers yet in Derg." (pp. vi-vii)

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