School: Knockaville (roll number 14185)
- Location:
- Knockaville, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. de Búrca
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- The following story is told about St. Stephen. The Jews were always spying on him because he used to be preaching about Our Saviour. One day the Jewish soldiers proposed to kill him and he went (to) up into a tree to hide. It happened that a wren was in the tree and when the soldiers can near the wren began to flutter.
The soldiers looked up and seeing Saint Stephen dragged him down and martyred him by throwing big stones at him. Since that the wren is supposed to be cursed. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Michael Ennis
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Michael Gowran
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockaville, Co. Westmeath