Laurent Vital hears of a pilgrimage to Donegal

Laurent Vital hears of a pilgrimage to Donegal

Lough Derg--Travelogue--Kinsale--Pilgrimage

A sixteenth-century account by Laurent Vital of information gathered during the visit of Archduke Ferdinand to Kinsale

Laurent Vital

Laurent Vital, Archduke Ferdinand's visit to Kinsale in Ireland, p. 290

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

1517-18

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork. Translated into English and donated to CELT by Dorothy Convery.

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Electronic text translation

English, translated from French

Travelogue

DD_0561

51.705477,-8.523765

https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T500000-001/

"On what one needed to do to go there, she informed us, that when she found herself there with others, that is to say in a monastery, the abbot spoke to everyone who had come there with the intention of entering the Cave: 'My friends, I advise you, bring to your attention and warn you of the perils which can befall any of you. For if you, young persons, through irresponsibility and without having properly considered your affairs are come here to descend into the Cave in order to have remission for your sins, you could just as well have remission in some other places, in countries other than here, where our holy father the pope has conceded similar pardons, without being exposed to the dangers which have happened to several. However, I neither want to criticise nor praise your intention; for each one of you must be sensible enough to know what has to be done. Think carefully if you are up to this task.'"

Archduke Ferdinand's visit to Kinsale in Ireland, an extract from Le Premier Voyage de Charles-Quint en Espagne, de 1517 à 1518. Dorothy Convery (ed), Electronic edition, CELT Project, Cork (2012)