• 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.
  • St. Patrick’s Purgatory is a unique and enigmatic site that embodies both the spiritual aspirations and fears of those who seek it.
  • Indeed, between the 13th and 15th century, St Patrick’s Purgatory and Ireland were often synonymous. So even though today the Purgatory remains popular, a few...
  • But accounts of St. Patrick’s Purgatory differ from these other tales in a very important way: They feature purgatory as a physical place with physical features...
  • ...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.
  • ‘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.
  • Even today, St Patrick’s Purgatory and Station Island remain important places of pilgrimage for the Irish.
  • It may retain it’s name of St.Patrick’s ‘Purgatory’ but there are glimpses of heaven to be found there.
  • Numerous accounts of foreign pilgrimages to St. Patrick's Purgatory are chronicled during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, including the...
  • 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.
  • In the fifth century, St. Patrick saw Jesus who led him to a cave or a well that was an entrance to Purgatory.