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The Acta Sanctorum contains a document in which the closure is attributed to the denunciation of a Dutch monk, who had been to Lough Derg and subsequently traveled to the Vatican , where he accused the pilgrimage's organizers including the bishop and the prior of simony. Taviani that document is a fake, forged by someone who never had been to Lough Derg and who imagined St. The Pope would never have ordered the closure of the pilgrimage, and in fact this never happened. The promise of a journey to the underworld could no longer be sustained. To ensure the survival of the pilgrimage, it was necessary to turn it into an event purely concerned with penitence.

In order to overcome any potential opposition to this radical change, a fictitious Papal order was conceived. The monastery was than dissolved in , although the local lord apparently allowed the monks to remain. By the Franciscans were present on the island in the summer to administer to the needs of the pilgrims. They built a church, St. Mary of the Angels, on Station Island in There is no evidence that the pilgrimage to St.

It continues even today, after almost fifteen-hundred years. It is a three-day pilgrimage open to pilgrims of all religions, or none, who must be at least fifteen years of age, in good health and able to walk and kneel unaided. Pilgrims, who should begin fasting at the previous midnight, assemble at the Visitor Centre on the shore of Lough Derg early in the day between about 10 am and 1 pm.

From there a boat ferries them on the brief trip out to Station Island. Once on the island they are assigned a dormitory room, and barefoot they begin a specified and almost continuous cycle of prayer and liturgies. These prayers — the Our Father or Lord's Prayer , the Hail Mary and the Apostles' Creed all included in a booklet they receive — are carried out at designated 'stations' on the island, including six 'beds' that are the remains of ancient cells or beehive huts , named for famous — principally Irish — saints.

These are thought to be the remains of early monastic cells. Pilgrims spend the first night in the island's basilica in prayer, and only on the second night can they finally sleep in the dormitory. Each day on the island the pilgrims have one simple meal of dry toast, oatcakes and black tea or coffee. On the third morning they are ferried back to the mainland, where they will continue their fast until midnight. The site is under the stewardship of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher.

The staff includes people who can help with both spiritual and practical concerns.

Patrick's Purgatory as well. Rabelais's Gargantua bawdily refers to it as "Saint Patrick's hole". Since the records were destroyed in , we have no way of knowing exactly how many people made the pilgrimage each year in those days. However, since that time, records are available; and we know, for example, that in , 5, pilgrims were recorded for the season; by the number of pilgrims grew to 15,, and to 30, by , just before the onset of the Great Famine.

From to approximately 3, pilgrims visited annually; and from to , the number averaged over 8, From to the end of the century the number never fell below 10, pilgrims, and in many years was twice, and sometimes thrice, that number. In , 8, people completed the pilgrimage. There are thirty-three pilgrims to St. Patrick's Purgatory between c.

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Thirty-two are listed in Haren and de Pontfarcy; [35] Francesco Chiericati saw the name of the 33rd, Guarino da Durazzo, in a book on Station Island during his visit, before all of the records on St. Patrick's Purgatory were presumably destroyed on 25 October From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

For the Seamus Heaney collection, see Station Island poetry. Not to be confused with Staten Island.

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Visions of Heaven and Hell before Dante. Italica Press, , — Clogher Historical Society, , pp. The Monuments and the People. Syracuse University Press, University of Chicago Press, The Pilgrim's Way to St. Italica Press, , p. Documenti letterari e testimonianze di pellegrinaggio secc. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 24 September Four Courts Press, Voyage au Purgatoire de St. Visions de Tindal et de St. Early English Text Society