St Patrick in Italy

The fresco of St Patrick’s Purgatory and ‘St Patrick’s Well’ in Umbria By Brenda Moore-McCann “It is probably the first, the largest and the most complex artistic representation of Purgatory and the St Patrick legend in existence.” In 1998, while on an art history research trip to Italy, I came across a spectacular sixteenth-century well ... Read more

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