THE PAPAL BLESSING,
O.'Neill marched his army into the South of Ireland, leaving devastation and misery along his line of march. He joined with Desmond in Munster, and helped in reducing that natural garden to a barren desert, Be. fore he returned north again he and five other chiefß sent a letter to Pope Clement V expressing their zeal for the Catholic cause, requesting his further assistance in their •war, beseeching him to renew the sentence of excommunication against the Queen. The Pope sent a reply, and published a Bull, in which "he granted to the illustrous Prince Hugh O'Neill and all his confederates the same indulgences usually given to those who fought against the Turk."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1934, 19 March 1891, Page 32
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116THE PAPAL BLESSING, Otago Witness, Issue 1934, 19 March 1891, Page 32
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