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1611:
Illustration of St Patrick in Bonaventura Ó Heodhasa, An Teagasg Criosdaidhe (Antwerp, 1611). The Saint is shown in front of the mouth of the cave at St Patrick’s purgatory – an image familiar to a European audience since at least the fourteenth century.
© Royal Irish Academy