School: Virginia (C )

Location:
Virginia, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Mrs Farelly
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    A great number of people visited his house some on crutches to get healed and the village was crowded with people. Some from Virginia went there but the thing turned out to be a fake.
    The owner of the house visited a priest in another Parish and the Priests Cruicfix there began to bleed.
    So the Priest kept a watch on the man and he caught him painting a red liquid on the Cruicfix so that put an end to the so called miracle in Ballinamore.
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  2. Once upon a time there was a holy woman who visited a country church every morning Winter and Summer to light the Sanctuary Lamp. She was always there a half an hour before Mass started for many years and never missed one morning. But one morning when the priest came in to the chapel to say Mass, he noticed that the Sanctuary Lamp was not lit. He guessed that
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ethna Mc Cabe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lisnabantry, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Patrick Mc Cabe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lisnabantry, Co. Cavan