School: Cill Tulaigh (roll number 15166)
- Location:
- Kiltullagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Seasnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0034, Page 0449
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- (continued from previous page)the night there until morning. He rose next day and he ate a good big breakfast and went away home and left a blessing with the twelve women. He was travelling until he reached home. When the Bishop heard that he had come back and succeeded in doing the penance, he went to visit him. "You have come back" said the Bishop. "I have" said the priest, "and the needles with you" said the Bishop. "Yes" said the priest. "Here they are. Why then the sins that are on me are greater than those on you" said the Bishop. The Bishop had no comfort until he went to the Pope. He told the Pope the penance he had put on the priest and he had no expectation that he would come back for ever until he would be drowned. "The same penance that you put on the priest, you put it on yourself" said the pope and you must do the same journey. The Bishop went away and went upon the same journey and never came back since. The priest was saved and the bishop was lost.
- Collector
- Rita Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockatogher, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Patrick Broderick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Knockatogher, Co. Galway
