St. Patrick was not Irish

This is the time of the year when I remind everyone that Saint Patrick
was not Irish, he was Roman.



Two Latin letters survive which are generally accepted to have been
written by Patrick. These are the Declaration (Latin: Confessio) and
the Letter to the soldiers of Coroticus (Latin: Epistola). The
Declaration is the more important of the two. In it Patrick gives a
short account of his life and his mission. His parents were
Calphurnius and Conchessa. The former belonged to a Roman family of
high rank and held the office of decurio in Gaul or Britain. Conchessa
was a near relative of the great patron of Gaul, St Martin of Tours.
In or about his sixteenth year, Patrick was carried into captivity by
marauders and was sold as a slave to an Irish chieftan named Milchu in
Dalriada, an area in present-day county Antrim.

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On 07/03/2015 18:46, Lord Vath wrote:
This is the time of the year when I remind everyone that Saint Patrick
was not Irish, he was Roman.


So was St George.

On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 11:46:14 AM UTC-7, Lord Vath wrote:
This is the time of the year when I remind everyone that Saint Patrick
was not Irish, he was Roman.

Well, of course. He is important to Ireland because he was the one who came to
Ireland and liberated its people from the darkness of paganism, bringing the
light of Christianity to them.

This was hardly something the Irish could do for themselves.

John Savard

On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 07:27:22 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
wrote this crap:

On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 11:46:14 AM UTC-7, Lord Vath wrote:
This is the time of the year when I remind everyone that Saint Patrick
was not Irish, he was Roman.

Well, of course. He is important to Ireland because he was the one who came to
Ireland and liberated its people from the darkness of paganism, bringing the
light of Christianity to them.

This was hardly something the Irish could do for themselves.

At the time, the Irish were perfecting Guinness, and that took most of
their time. And never forget the famous miracle of St. Patrick
driving the snakes out of Ireland. That must have been tough, the car
hadn't been invented yet.


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On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 12:10:48 -0400, Lord Vath wrote:

That must have been tough, the car
hadn't been invented yet.

Cute.
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