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... sacred edifice was raised , have an undoubted claim to the grati- tude of posterity . By their apostolic virtues they have won for their country a name which shall ever be cherished , and of which no other nation can boast , that of an ...
... sacred edifice was raised , have an undoubted claim to the grati- tude of posterity . By their apostolic virtues they have won for their country a name which shall ever be cherished , and of which no other nation can boast , that of an ...
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... sacred books and some relics of SS . Peter and Paul , and of other saints , together with his writing tablets ; all of which were preserved in this church , and held in great veneration for years after the departure of Palladius . * At ...
... sacred books and some relics of SS . Peter and Paul , and of other saints , together with his writing tablets ; all of which were preserved in this church , and held in great veneration for years after the departure of Palladius . * At ...
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... sacred one should be first lighted by the druids on the hill of Tarah - a ceremony which was to serve as a signal for the rest of Ireland.§ St. Patrick , however , lit his paschal fire , and when it was seen from the heights of Tarah ...
... sacred one should be first lighted by the druids on the hill of Tarah - a ceremony which was to serve as a signal for the rest of Ireland.§ St. Patrick , however , lit his paschal fire , and when it was seen from the heights of Tarah ...
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... sacred and biographical subjects . Having crossed the Shannon near Drumsnare , he converted the two daughters of the monarch Leogaire , Ethnea and Fethlimia , together with the druids Mael and Caplat , under whose tutelage these ladies ...
... sacred and biographical subjects . Having crossed the Shannon near Drumsnare , he converted the two daughters of the monarch Leogaire , Ethnea and Fethlimia , together with the druids Mael and Caplat , under whose tutelage these ladies ...
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... sacred volume , known as the Canoin Phadraig , or " the Scripture of Patrick , " made in 807 , ie . three centuries after St. Patrick's decease , has survived all the accidents of time , and is now deposited in the the Library of T. C. ...
... sacred volume , known as the Canoin Phadraig , or " the Scripture of Patrick , " made in 807 , ie . three centuries after St. Patrick's decease , has survived all the accidents of time , and is now deposited in the the Library of T. C. ...
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Page 425 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 425 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 400 - This order, good brethren, is from our gracious king, and from the rest of our brethren, the fathers and clergy of England, who have consulted herein, and compared the holy Scriptures with what they have done; unto whom I submit, as Jesus did to Caesar, in all things just and lawful, making no question why or wherefore, as we own him our true and lawful king...
Page 166 - That is well said," observed Bonner ; " I see you are no anabaptist. How say you then to the presence of Christ's body and blood, in the sacrament of the altar...
Page 238 - set forth Henry's right to the sovereignty of Ireland in virtue of the Pope's authority, and inculcated the necessity of obeying him under pain of excommunication'. The English were not yet eight years in Ireland, the greater part of the country was still closed to them, but already the Irish were being excommunicated for refusing to become slaves. In Ireland, as in all Catholic countries...
Page 502 - Ireland, and for many other impediments (of which affidavit was made), I could not at the end of five weeks get the records and witnesses brought hither; I therefore begged for twelve days more, that I might be in readiness for my trial, which the Lord Chief Justice refused...
Page 358 - And, lest the writing should perish with the writer, and the work should fail with the workman, I leave behind me parchment for continuing it, if any man should have the good fortune. to survive this calamity, or any one of the race of Adam should escape this pestilence, and live to continue what I have begun.
Page 365 - England and his heirs for ever, and by which grant the people of Ireland owe their obedience to the King of England, as their sovereign lord — it is therefore ordained that all Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland shall, upon the monition of forty days, proceed to the excommunication of all disobedient subjects ; and if such Archbishops or Bishops be remiss in discharging their duty in the premises, they shall henceforth be liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds.
Page 71 - Apostles. For, as I have already said, we are attached to the chair of St. Peter ; and although Rome is great and renowned, yet with us it is great and distinguished only on account of that apostolic chair.
Page 425 - Munster; for, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would' have thought they should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of...