{"id":85066,"date":"2019-07-29T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T08:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/?p=85066"},"modified":"2021-02-21T07:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T06:01:56","slug":"pilgrimage-to-cruach-phadraig-saint-patrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/news\/pilgrimage-to-cruach-phadraig-saint-patrick","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrimage to Cruach Ph\u00e1draig \/ Croagh Patrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the last Sunday in July, thousands of pilgrims climb Croagh Patrick (Ireland), a holy mountain 764 m high, in honour of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Patrick\">Saint Patrick<\/a> (apostle and primary patron saint of Ireland) who, according to tradition, fasted and prayed on the summit for forty days in the year 441. Masses are held at the summit, where there is a small chapel.<\/p>\n<p>From ancient times pilgrims have climbed the mountain barefoot, as an act of penance, a practice that still continues today. Some pilgrims carry out &#8217;rounding rituals\u2019, in which they pray while walking sunwise around features on the mountain. In the past, pilgrims carried stones as an act of penance, or to represent a prayer intention. This practice of carrying stones or rocks on a pilgrimage, can be seen in many ancient pilgrimage paths, the most notable being the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camino_de_Santiago\">Camino de Santiago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Croagh Patrick<\/em> comes from the Irish <em>Cruach Ph\u00e1draig<\/em> meaning &#8220;(Saint) Patrick stack&#8221;. Fron the the Bronze Age that there is evidence of \u00a0a landscape of religious importance with a great number of megalithic alignments in and around Croagh Patrick. Tradition says that Saint Patrick followed the T\u00f3char Ph\u00e1draig, a pre-Christian causeway on his way to the mountains. \u00a0The T\u00f3char is thought to be part of a pre-Christian pilgrimage, at least dating back to the Bronze Age, which was Christianised afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Cruach Ph\u00e1draig is a case study of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.med-ina.org\/delos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IUCN Delos Initiative.<\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-85066\" data-postid=\"85066\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-85066 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last Sunday in July, thousands of pilgrims climb Croagh Patrick (Ireland), a holy mountain 764 m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":85100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[311,313],"class_list":["post-85066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-christianity","tag-sacred-sites","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85066"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86869,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85066\/revisions\/86869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}