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Ireland's Pilgrim Paths |
| Section: LIFE / TRAVEL |
| Author: Steenie Harvey |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 3,385 Words, 20,705 Characters |
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For Catholic Ireland, devotion goes right to the bone. TV programs halt for the eighteen bells of the Angelus; local newspapers brim with novenas and prayers "never known to fail." Even the postage stamps regularly feature Celtic crosses, time-toppled monasteries, and masterpieces of religious art.
But devotion can be more rigorous than simply reciting the rosary. This melancholy land of saints and scholars is also a land of pilgrimage and penance. It is a land where old men shrive their sins by climbing barefoot to Croag~ Patricks. summit on Garland Sunday.
In folklore, Croagh Patrick is the mountain from where Saint Patrick rid Ireland of poisonous reptiles, casting them into the sea. Catholics concentrate less on snake charmery and more on the belief that Patrick fasted and p...
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...bestow official recognition as a shrine until 1954. The final seal of approval came in 1979, the centenary year of the vision, when Pope John Paul II visited the shrine, celebrating Mass and inaugurating the new Basilica of Our Lady, Queen of Ireland.
Almost one million people, one-third of Eires population, were present on that very special day Such is the continuing power of devotion.
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