Show ERINS HOLY PLACE for or fifteen centuries the reek has played important part in Count rys history T el in the lie month ill july that the I 1 FIS grew ecat annual I 1 pil clams ot 1 the back reek takes place the he reek beek sometimes known as aya creagh croagh gh Pt patrick rik la is the mount zion of the emerald late isle F for 0 r on its summit intermit st patrick is said I 1 to I 1 h have wrung fr from the angel many promises promise tor far the salvation at of 0 the people he be had made hande big own for fifteen centuries this mount mountain in has played no important part 1 in the re lignos history of 0 ireland and ad year A by ye year r people journey by the thousands up the mountain which IS bourt about 3 feet high it 1 is a and mr dif limit ascent occupying the no beat part pact ot of three hours and most of the grima make it tn in the evening so an be aa to hold their vigil on the summit there li th reek is a little chapel capal A on the mountain top but jt Is so small mail that few can a tied find a place therein and most kneel outside the germona preached are re in n G gaelic A a if c and the masses continue from day break until 1 noon I st SL patrick is on record its as having visited the reek in A D and spent forty days on its summit 1 nd hid den dea from the world by the mists lusts hanging about the lower amun portion of the mountain the I 1 legend C ge ad S saya BY that he be was assailed by huge black birds which only took to flight when he ha rang his bell against them ill the bel bell rolled called down the mountain but an angel came and ad reet restored ered it to the saint ABIL all the me men of erin heard this ringing ot of the ind bell 1 and ad it la IS stated now bow that it la Is often aten heard again afterward afterward st patrick was visited by a angeli gels and ad fr from their land leader he wrested set the following pledges that aa 11 many souls should be saved as could many g fill I 1 the he horizon which lie he looked upon that 1 on 1 every cry thursday seven ile 1 soula I shot and ad on very every saturday to aday twelve souls out should be freed from P purgatory that whoever r r recited 1 11 ad the I 1 last at I 1 verse its of his bis wimda hymn ic co constantly fly should suffer no t torments tormenta C suffern in the next world and that at on the test last say day he be should be appointed to be sit it I 1 in judgment on an the A sins of goal gael 0 4 4 |