Saint Patrick & the times he lived in -- How he "...found Ireland all heathen and left it all Christian!" - American Minute with Bill Federer

American Minute ^ | March 16, 2022 | Bill Federer

[Perseverando]

In 220 AD, the Later Eastern Han Dynasty extended sections of the Great Wall of China along the Mongolian border.
This made it harder for the Huns to attack into China, so they turned westward, attacking and displacing tribes throughout

These tribes migrated further west, overrunning the western borders of the Roman Empire:
Visigoths,
Ostrogoths,
Franks,
Anglos,
Saxons,
Alemanni,
Thuringians,
Rugians,
Jutes,
Picts,
Burgundians,
Lombards,
Alans, and
Vandals.

Rome had to withdraw its Legions from other areas of the Empire, such as Britain, in order to place them along the Roman border.
This left Britain, which had been a Roman territory since the time of Julius Caesar, unprotected.

Marauding bands and lawless mobs raided Britain's unprotected Roman settlements and carried away thousands to sell into slavery in Ireland.

Ireland was ruled by the bloodthirsty, superstitious pagan Druids.
Thomas Cahill wrote in How the Irish Saved Civilization (Random House, 1995):
"Romans, in their first encounters with these exposed, insane warriors, were shocked and frightened ... They were howling and, it seemed, possessed by demons, so outrageous was their strength ... featuring all the terrors of hell itself."
The Druids, from whom Halloween originated, believed that the trees and hills were inhabited by good and evil spirits which constantly needed to be appeased.

Cahill continued:
"(Druids) sacrificed prisoners of war to the war gods and newborns to the harvest gods.
Believing that the human head was the seat of the soul, they displayed proudly the

[Albion Wilde]

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