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Wells Blessed by Saint Patrick Transcribed
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“Wells Blessed by Saint Patrick”
Wells Blessed by Saint Patrick
Wells blessed by Saint Patrick.
It is recorded that when St. Patrick was brought for Baptism, the blind & aged Priest was unable to find the water essential for his purpose.
Illuminated, as it is held, as to the future sanctity of the Baby, the Priest signed with the infants hand a cross upon the ground. Immediately on contact being made between flesh and clay, a spring of water burst up in which the Baby was baptised and the sightless eyes of the Priest were washed & made to see.
On coming to Ireland and commencing his journeys through the length & breadth of the land, the Saint stopped near a well or stream which he consecrated before baptising his converts. One such well is to be found at Ballintubber in Co. Sligo & it is renouned for centuries having given its name to the Parish in which it is situated.
Even in pagan times the people reverenced this well because they thought that there some magician living under the rock from which the water sprang.
St. Patrick soon put an end to this Idolatry by taking down the stone slab which was
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