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New Zealand Tablet, 8 July 1920, Page 23

Italy possesses 13 places whose patron saints are Irish; Belgium, 30; Scotland, 76; Germany, 15; France, 47; England, 44; Iceland, 9. We know that one Irish monk was the cause of sending Columbus on his voyage of discovery, and another was the means of inspiring Dante with the idea of composing the Divina Commedia, for Dante admits that he drew inspiration from the work of St. Fursey, called the "Vision," written in the sixth century. ■ •■■.•. •.••;• ■■';:*■.: «_..:: ;.,