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Life of St Patrick
The record of the coming of Christianity to Ireland is obscure, even confusing. Traditionally, St Patrick was credited with converting the entire Irish race from paganism in the years 432-461. .... |
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Legends of St Patrick
Pious legend credits Patrick with banishing snakes from the island of Ireland, though post-glacial Ireland never actually had snakes; one suggestion is that snakes referred to the serpent .... |
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Thought for St Patricks Day: St Patrick and the Spire
Patrick, the ex-slave, dared to light the fire on Slane Hill, to the acute embarrassment of the monarch. Little did he realise that it was not just a fire Patrick lit, but a great light. Over 1,500 .... |
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The Confession of St. Patrick
I am Patrick, a sinner, most unlearned, the least of all the faithful, and utterly despised by many. My father was Calpornius, a deacon, son of Potitus, a priest, of the village Bannavem Taburniæ .... |
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St Patrick’s Day Mass
The Liturgical Readings are the official readings for St Patrick’s Day Mass. The rest of the material presented are suggestions taken from Intercom magazine.
Léachtaí Aifrinn as Gaelige
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Prayers of St Patrick
There is no other God, there never was and there never will be, than God the Father, unbegotten and without beginning, from whom is all beginning, holding all things as we have learned; and his son .... |
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A lighter look at some of our Irish saints
Some people can be too generous for their own good. Brigid was one of these! She couldn't bear to see anyone cold or hungry, and often gave away things that weren't hers to help the poor. One day .... |
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A synopsis of Irish saints and their feast days
St Munchin (Mainchin) is the patron saint of the diocese of limerick. He is known only from Dalcassian genealogies and seems to have been born in Dal Cais, where a parish and old graveyard Cell .... |
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St Patrick’s Ireland today and immigration issues
St Patrick’s Ireland today and immigration issues
No longer strangers: cultural integration in Church and Society in Ireland This book, edited by Bernard Tracey OP with Alan V. Martin and .... |
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Links to other St Patrick Resources
Useful Links to matters connected with St Patrick
St Patrick’s Purgatory, Lough Derg, St Patrick’s Island
http://www.loughderg.org/
http://www.clogherdiocese.ie/loughderg/
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