• Map of Station Island and its penitential stations by Thomas Carve in 1666. "Caverna Purgatory" on the map is the site of the actual cave.
  • St Patrick’s Purgatory is an ancient pilgrimage site on Station Island in Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland.
  • The legend of Saint Patrick and his purgatory. ... As you can see, St Patrick’s Purgatory can be visited, but mainly if you decide to make a pilgrimage there.
  • ...even touts the pilgrimage as “the toughest in all of Europe, perhaps even in the whole Christian world,” thus keeping the “purgatory” in St. Patrick’s Purgatory.
  • Indeed, between the 13th and 15th century, St Patrick’s Purgatory and Ireland were often synonymous.
  • After spending a few more hours on the island, however, the author concluded, “This wasn’t St. Patrick’s Purgatory, this was hell.”
  • Numerous accounts of foreign pilgrimages to St. Patrick's Purgatory are chronicled during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, including the...
  • ‘The Purgatory of St. Patrick became the framework of another series of tales, embodying the Celtic ideas concerning the other life and its different states.
  • Annual Pilgrimage to Lough Derg (St Patricks Purgatory). ... Nature & Wildlife Areas in Pettigo. Things to do near St Patrick's Purgatory, Lough Derg.
  • Nevertheless, this lake is home to St. Patrick’s Purgatory and one of the most grueling Christian pilgrimages on the planet.
  • St. Patrick’s Purgatory is an ancient pilgrimage that has taken place on Station Island in Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland.
  • St Patrick’s Purgatory is an ancient pilgrimage site on Station Island in Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland.
  • St. Patrick's Purgatory. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12580a.htm.