School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

Location:
Kells, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máthais Íde
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 153

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 153

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
  2. XML Page 153
  3. XML “A Story of the Lavender”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Our Blessed Lady went one day to a stream to wash her Divine Infant's clothes, and when she had done so, spread them on a little bush that grew near.
    When she came back in the evening to fetch the little garments, she was amazed to find that the bush had turned green And growing on it were long stalks with little flowers of a pretty mauve colour at the ends, which gave out a delightful perfume.
    The clothes were dry and lying upon some stones near the water. As the Blessed Virgin stood wandering, the Angel Gabriel appeared to her and blessing the lavender, he said: "Henceforth these flowers shall give forth a delicate fragrance and shall be known for their sweet scent." Then the angel disappeared and holy Mary picking up the garments, returned home full of joy. The lavender sticks or the
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Aughey
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13