Trias Thaumaturga

The Three Wonderworking Patrons of Ireland

Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Apostle of Scotland and Patron of Ireland

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Today is the feast of Saint Colum Cille and to mark the occasion I reprint below a newspaper article from 1905.  The author, who signs ...
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Tuesday, 17 March 2020

The Story of Saint Patrick - A Legend in Verse

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To celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, below is a poem describing his life by a nineteenth-century priest ministering to an Irish expatriate ...
Saturday, 1 February 2020

The Mary of the Gael

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Today to celebrate the Feast of Saint Brigid we have an account of our national patroness from the 1920s which was among a stash of inter...
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Thursday, 22 March 2018

The Bachall Ísu at the Founding of Armagh

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Although in recent days we have been looking at the  Bachall Ísu in relation to Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, it was once the prize...
Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Did the Staff of Jesus Survive?

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Yesterday we looked at the sources suggesting that the Bachall Isú, the Staff of Jesus   had been publicly burnt in Dublin during the Ref...
Tuesday, 20 March 2018

The Burning of the Staff of Jesus

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Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin Photo Credit: Wikipedia Yesterday we looked at some of the references to the Staff of Jesus (Baculus J...
Monday, 19 March 2018

The Staff of Jesus in the Irish Annals

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Yesterday we looked at the account of The Staff of Jesus (Irish Bachall Ísu , Latin Baculus Jesu ) by Archbishop John Healy in which ...
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Marcella
I am an Irishwoman interested in the lives of our native saints and martyrs. I am not a professional scholar in this field but attempt to keep up with the work of those who are. I am particularly interested in the many obscure Irish saints whose names fill the pages of our Martyrologies.
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