Pilgrims

Station Island, View from Ferry House

The ancient pilgrimage

"All was as still as death"

Bobby expresses his confusion

Penitential beds and view of lake

Pilgrims arriving at Lough Derg

Pilgrims at the water station

The Landing, Station Island

The Sanctuary, Station Island

"All around it is the glint and stir of water"

"Recited in the open, while facing the airy spaciousness of mountain, sky and water"

"The stones become doubly slippery and the whole slope acquires a slithery and greasy surface"

"The very strangeness of the whole rite is like an old memory overlaid by time"

Burials on Friars' Island, in Templecarne, and further away

The journey of five women returning to Ireland in 1922

"The Church never relinquished her hold upon the one grey rock"

"We left the Island with dry skies but still carrying our fast with us"

"We seemed to stand in a dim place where two worlds meet"

The approach to the lake

A great thunder

Antonio Mannini prepares for his journey

A visit in the reign of Henry VIII