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Croagh Patrick , mountain, 2,510 ft (765 m) high, Co. Mayo, W Republic of Ireland, near Westport Bay. Legend connects it with St. Patrick, and its summit has long been a place of pilgrimage.

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Croagh Patrick

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | © The Oxford Companion to Irish History 2007, originally published by Oxford University Press 2007. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Croagh Patrick, a 2,500‐foot high mountain in Co. Mayo, associated with St Patrick, who, according to tradition, fasted there for 40 days. Pilgrims climbed the mountain on the last Sunday of July, close to the old Celtic festival of Lughnasa, reciting prayers, performing penitential exercises or ‘stations’, and spending one night in vigil at the summit. The pilgrimage survived the Reformation and, thanks to its penitential element, which came to include personal confession, won the approval of Tridentine reformers. The pilgrimage was revived in 1903 and its popularity survived the changes in traditional religious practice after Vatican II.

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Cruach Phádraig

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | | © A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology 2004, originally published by Oxford University Press 2004. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Cruach Phádraig. Irish form of Croagh Patrick.
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