The Lough Derg Pilgrimage in the Age of the Counter-Reformation
The Lough Derg Pilgrimage in the Age of the Counter-Reformation
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反宗教改革时代的德格湖朝圣
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2004
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通讯作者:
Raymond Gillespie
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作者:
B. Cunningham;Raymond Gillespie
T in early modern Ireland presents important challenges to historians. Few sites have attracted any detailed historical analysis.1 Superficially, the continuity of use of pilgrimage sites at Lough Derg in County Donegal, Croagh Patrick in County Mayo, and Holy Cross Abbey in County Tipperary points to a long tradition of Catholic devotional practice. This argument was espoused by nineteenth-century controversialists, such as Canon Daniel O’Connor, concerned to demonstrate the antiquity, and thereby the validity, of the Catholic church. In O’Connor’s view Lough Derg formed “a connecting link between the days of St. Patrick and the present time.”2 The idea that the remote lake-island site in West Ulster known as St. Patrick’s Purgatory provided a privileged glimpse of the afterlife had dominated the medieval tradition. A corpus of medieval manuscript material extant throughout Europe attests to its renown in the Middle Ages. Giraldus Cam-