On a visit to Dublin, Ireland, Fay Angus toured St. Patrick’s Cathedral, which is well over 500 years old. To one side in the cathedral is an aging wooden door called the Door of Reconciliation. In 1492, the Earl of Ormonde and the Earl of Kildare were locked in a bloody feud. Kildare chased Ormonde into St. Patrick’s. Suddenly, Kildare decided to call off the feud. With his sword, he cut a slit in the wooden door of St. Patrick’s and stuck his hand through for a handshake. Ormonde had a decision to make: cut off his rival’s hand, or shake it and declare peace. Ormonde put down his sword and shook Kildare’s hand. From that day on, this simple wooden door had been known as the Door of Reconciliation.

— Fay Angus, Guideposts 2000 (Carmel, N.Y.: Guideposts, 1999), 84-85.