The faithful have been climbing this holy mountain for 1,500 years since.Īrchbishop John Healey of Tuam, in 1903, revived the pilgrimage, saying, “We have come to love The Reek with a kind of personal love it is Patrick’s holy mountain. Patrick fasted and prayed on what is also known as “The Reek” for 40 days and 40 nights, facing the elements and assailed by demonic crows. Historical accounts tell us that, in 441, St. R.H.Croagh Patrick is Ireland’s most-climbed mountain and oldest pilgrimage site, located on the rugged west coast of Mayo, overlooking beautiful Clew Bay and the Atlantic.
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“I only pray when I ain’t got a prayer”. This prayer is attributed to him or at least inspired by him:įor a musical rendition, see Steve Bell’s version. It is clear to me now, that the was due to the fervour So that in a single day I would say as many as a hundred prayers,Īlthough I might be staying in a forest or out on a mountainside,Įven before dawn broke, I would be aroused to pray.Īnd I was never slack but always full of energy. More and more the love of God and fear of Him grew strong within me.Īnd my faith grew, so the Spirit became more and more active, It was then that I was made to shepherd the flocksĭay after day, so, as I did so, I would pray all the time, right through the day. Prayer, Patrick discovered, is conversation with his Anam-cara.” The Anam-cara is the Friend of the soul… The depth and shelter of this Anam-cara belonging enabled Patrick to endure the most awful conditions. In his awful experience of alienation and exile, he discovers God as his anam-cara: Anam is the Irish word for soul and cara is the word for friend. Patrick understands his slavery as the door into divine friendship. They could never have suspected the spiritual tradition that would be born out of thier brutal action. It was Irish pirates who kidnapped him from his British home and sold him into slavery in Ireland. “His story revolves around an initial irony which qualifies his centrality in the Irish tradition. 
And yet, Patrick left behind a unique document in his Confessions written in the 5th Century. “Beyond being recognized as the patron saint of Ireland, little else is popularly known about Saint Patrick, ” writes John O’Donahue in his forward to this recent translation.
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