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St. Patrick's Purgatory: Pilgrimage Motifs in a Medieval Otherworld Vision

In Lough Derg, lake in the Irish county of Donegal, there is an island, sacred to both pre-Christian and Christian Celts, which achieved fame in the Middle Ages as goal for pilgrims and an entrance to purgatory. Here, according to tradition, St. found way to convert the pagan Irish through graphic demonstration of the pains of the damned and the joys of the blessed. Thousands of pilgrims travelled to the of St. Patrick where, locked inside its cave-like cell, some would see extraordinary visions extending their pilgrimage into the other world. Those who survived the ordeal were said to be exempt from the pains of purgatory after death. The reports they brought back to the parishes and monasteries of Western Europe greatly augmented the stock of visionary testimony, providing an abundant resource for didactic and allegorical invention. The pilgrimage to St. Patrick's Purgatory continued to flourish in spite of the skepticism of Renaissance humanists and the attacks of the Reformers. Since the final destruction of the cave in the eighteenth century, however, the Purgatory has become setting for penitential exercises rather than otherworldly excursions. Today it draws close to fifteen thousand pilgrims and tourists each year. According to Victor and Edith Turner, Lough Derg has become a kind of national totemic center.'

St. Patrick's Purgatory: A Twelfth-Century Tale of a Journey to the Other World

St. Patrick's Purgatory: A Twelfth-Century Tale of a Journey to the Other World

St. Patrick's Purgatory

St. Patrick's Purgatory

St. Patrick's Purgatory

St. Patrick's Purgatory

Peter of Cornwall's Account of St. Patrick's Purgatory

Peter of Cornwall's Account of St. Patrick's Purgatory

The Date and Dedication of the Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii

Previous articleNext article No AccessNotes and DocumentsThe Date and Dedication of the Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti PatriciiRobert EastingRobert Easting Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Speculum Volume 53, Number 4Oct., 1978 The journal of the Medieval Academy of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2849786 Views: 4Total views on this site Citations: 3Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1978 The Mediaeval Academy of AmericaPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Michael D. Barbezat A Conjuration of Patrick: A Legacy of Doubt and Imagining in Hamlet, (Feb 2019): 41–59.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03795-6_3Michael David Barbezat “He Doubted That These Things Actually Happened”: Knowing the Otherworld in the Tractatus De Purgatorio Sancti Patricii, History of Religions 57, no.44 (Apr 2018): 321–347.https://doi.org/10.1086/696571Dorothea R. French Ritual, gender and power strategies: Male pilgrimage to saint Patrick's purgatory, Religion 24, no.22 (Apr 1994): 103–115.https://doi.org/10.1006/reli.1994.1009

Saint Patrick's Purgatory

Saint Patrick's Purgatory

Patrick's Purgatory

Patrick's Purgatory Get access Herbert Southam Herbert Southam Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 183, Issue 1, 4 July 1942, Page 28, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/183.1.28a Published: 04 July 1942

Patrick's Purgatory

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Patrick's Purgatory

Patrick's Purgatory Get access H. C. H. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 182, Issue 6, 7 February 1942, Page 83, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/182.6.83 Published: 07 February 1942

Patrick's Purgatory

Journal Article Patrick's Purgatory Get access Wm. Jaggard Wm. Jaggard Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 182, Issue 5, 31 January 1942, Page 68, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/182.5.67b Published: 31 January 1942

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Patrick's Purgatory

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Review of Book: Saint Patrick's Purgatory. A Record from History and Literature

Review of Book: Saint Patrick's Purgatory. A Record from History and Literature

An Early German Account of St Patrick's Purgatory

An Early German Account of St Patrick's Purgatory

The Form of Penance to Be Performed at St. Patrick's Purgatory in Lough Derge

The Form of Penance to Be Performed at St. Patrick's Purgatory in Lough Derge

St. Patrick's purgatory

St. Patrick's purgatory Get access Palamedes Palamedes Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s9-I, Issue 9, 26 February 1898, Pages 173–174, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s9-I.9.173h Published: 26 February 1898

St. Patrick's Purgatory

St. Patrick's Purgatory Get access Edward H. Marshall, M.A. Edward H. Marshall, M.A. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s8-XI, Issue 273, 20 March 1897, Page 231, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s8-XI.273.231a Published: 20 March 1897

St. Patrick's Purgatory

St. Patrick's Purgatory