I was reading the Augusta Chronicle on-line this morning. At the back of the paper is a "kids" page. One story was on Saint Patrick, who he was and why the celebrations and parades.
But read this which the article includes for the kid's edification. What do you think?:
Believe it or not, St. Patrick wasn’t born in Ireland, and he wasn’t called Patrick at all. He was born in England in the fifth century, and his name was Maewyn. He was brought to Ireland as a slave and eventually escaped and became a priest. He returned to Ireland later as a missionary, and it is believed he converted thousands of people to Christianity. That makes some people think he’s a hero and others not like him much.
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Well, now that the Pontifical Academy for Life has signaled that puberty blockers are okay to use in some cases, I say let's have a St. Patrick's Day parade which includes all these Vatican approved trans-children. It would be marvelous to see the effects of the Francis magisterium.
"That makes some people think he’s a hero and others not like him much."
Bad writing. Bad, bad writing.
The last sentence injects left-wing, political correctness into the story. The nuts running the University of Notre Dame have done the same thing with the Columbus Murals in the Administration Building. These folks are what I call the "perpetually outraged." FYI, they are also so-called "liberals."
Two men in Savanna were reading a newspaper. One says, “Da paper here says da police shot a man robbin’ da bank.” The other say. “Dat is bad.” The first says, “da newspaper says ‘da bullet is in him, yet’. The second asks, “is dat next to da kidney?”
And, by the way, John Nolan thinks St Patrick was ITALIAN! LOL!
rcg,
John Nolan probably said St. Patrick was a Roman citizen, which by some accounts he was. Roman citizenship was enjoyed by many non-Italians living in the provinces of the Empire.
St Patrick was Romano-British and was probably born towards the end of the fourth century. In AD 212 Roman citizenship was extended to all freemen in the Empire. England did not exist in St Patrick's day - he hailed from the Roman province of Britannia.
In his writings, St Patrick always refers to himself by the Latin name Patricius. I certainly did not claim he was Italian.
John Nolan,
Knowing your academic rigor, I knew you could not have possibly stated St. Patrick was Italian. As a practical matter, the term Italian did not exist at the time of St. Patrick. Civis romanus sum would have been the expression used.
You are right, John. I should have said Roman. Of course he had the Roman citizenship. I knew he was Roman by virtue of the law, but I had always thought he was actually one of the Scot or Britanic races or only a mix with a native Roman. In the last few years I have been told he was from a family from Rome. I am disillusioned.
rcg
I don't think race comes into it. Britannia was part of the Roman Empire for four centuries. Given the overall size of the population there would have been a lot of miscegenation, as of course was the case after the Anglo-Saxon invasions.
These cut off the 'Celtic' Church from Rome, geographically at least, but those who suggest it was not Roman Catholic conveniently ignore the fact that it had a Latin liturgy.
When, Sunday after Sunday, I sing and pray in Latin, I am conscious of the fact that I am identifying with my earliest Christian forebears. In fact, Latin was spoken in this island before Julius Caesar landed in 55 BC. Since then not a day has gone by when it has not been spoken.
You can understand my contempt for those who think the Church started in 1965 and that Latin is 'of no use'.
Oh, no! Just read that St Patrick’s real name was Maewyn Succat. Does this mean he might have been Welsh??? This is a sad St Patty’s day for sure.
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