Pilgrimage to St. Patrick’s Purgatory On the calm waters of Lough Derg in Ireland, the small Station Island is home to one of the toughest pilgrimages in the world.

We have a very, very big outreach here in terms of confessions,” Father Richard Gibbons, who has led the shrine for more than ...

Dublin, Ireland, May 31, 2025 / 09:00 am This weekend, the Jubilee of Hope pilgrimage season will open in Ireland and the first cohort of 2025 pilgrims will disembark on a small island called St ...

Archbishop Francis Duffy of Tuam put grandparents and the elderly at the heart of his message for the Jubilee Year's "Reek Sunday" pilgrimage at Ireland's holy mountain, Croagh Patrick, on July 27. In ...

St Patrick’s Way Key sites relating to Ireland’s patron saint form the backbone of this 82-mile signed walking trail which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.

A Church of Ireland Rector in Clogher Diocese is undertaking a pilgrimage of a different kind by walking from his church in Fermanagh to St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin.

Come rain, hail, or shine on Sunday, thousands of people will take to one of Ireland’s most well-known mountains to undertake the annual pilgrimage known as the Reek. For more than 1,600 years ...

One of Ireland’s most significant heritage sites, the Rock of Cashel is where St. Patrick baptized Aenghus, the King of Munster, accidentally wounding his foot with a crozier during the ceremony.

Croagh Patrick (also known as ‘the Reek’) is a 764m mountain on the west coast of Ireland: a great pyramid of rock which rises alone, its grandeur unobstructed by neighbouring peaks.

New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan delivers the homily during a Mass to mark the 150th anniversary of St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh, Ireland, Aug. 27, 2023.