Posted on 03/16/2016 7:49:48 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever
MARCH 17, around 461 AD, St. Patrick died.
As a teenager, the Roman Legions guarding his community in Britain had to be withdrawn to defend Rome, as invading heathen hordes, such as the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns, were overrunning the borders. Unprotected, Britain was attacked by raiders, who carried away thousands. Patrick was captured and sold as a slave in Ireland, which was ruled by the Druids, who practiced human sacrifice.
For six years Patrick herded animals for a Druid chieftain, as he wrote in his Confession:
"But after I came to Ireland---every day I had to tend sheep, and many times a day I prayed---the love of God and His fear came to me more and more, and my faith was strengthened.
And my spirit was moved so that in a single day I would say as many as a hundred prayers, and almost as many in the night, and this even when I was staying in the woods and on the mountains; and I used to get up for prayer before daylight, through snow, through frost, through rain...
There the Lord opened the sense of my unbelief that I might at last remember my sins and be converted with all my heart to the Lord my God who...comforted me as would a father his son."
Then Patrick had a dream, as he wrote...
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Yes, Saint Patrick converted the convertible and sent the heathens and snakes packing for what are now Boston, New York City, Atlantic City, and Washington D.C.
[sent the heathens and snakes packing for what are now Boston, New York City, Atlantic City, and Washington D.C.]
Mission field for Irish Christians.
Jameson and Guiness helped with keeping the Irish happy.
And now, thanks to the left, it has returned to its heathen roots.
And on the larger scale: Those that attack Christianity in the middle ages see unaware of what a miracle was worked to bring about Western Civilization from this.
And do note that it was a peaceful conversion ! No coercion or torture to accept, just a gradual teaching and showing the way of God.
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[And do note that it was a peaceful conversion!]
Beautiful history lesson about the love of GOD and the desire to see mankind accept JESUS as LORD and SAVIOR.
And now, having voted in sodomitical “marriage” it’s back to heathenism again...
Nice post—thanks! I forwarded it to several.
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