School: Abbeyleix Convent (roll number 13613)
- Location:
- Abbeyleix, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Mother Paul
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- (continued from previous page)and after a time he told what and who he was.
Once he had been rich, but he strayed from the path of righteousness and became a wanderer over the earth. With poverty came repentance and he roamed in privation over the land, ever taking care to hide his name and assuming that of "Dithpeabhac".
Feeling his end approaching the poor man asked for a priest and made his peace with God. He then asked for his little bundle. From it he took an oil painting of surpassing beauty - the magnificent bust of St Peter, which today hangs above the high altar in the Church of Shanahoe.
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“There is an old legend that a black-smith who washes who washes in the water that has cooled his irons feels stringer and refreshed.”
There is an old legend that(continues on next page) - Collector
- E. Bergin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corbally, Co. Laois
