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To: caldera599

This has got to be one of the most ridiculous things that ever came out of the academic mind. St Patrick wrote an autobiography and was not responding to “charges” of any kind. Kidnapping by Irish raiders was quite common, and he went and worked peacefully as a shepherd for 6 years until he had a dream of an angel telling him to go down to the harbor and he would find a ship that could take him away. The legend is that he went to the Continent with a shipload of Irish hounds being sent to France to be sold for hunting dogs for the nobility.

His Latin was very poor when he arrived in Europe and he actually had to relearn it so that he could make it through his priestly training, although it is not known where he did this.

When he returned to Ireland at the Pope’s orders (after the Briton Pelagius had failed in his commission) he looked up his former owner and paid him the price that the owner had paid for him when the owner bought him.

St Patrick’s father was a Christian Roman and does not seem to have been trying to “get out” of anything. He was not a very high-ranking official and certainly calling him “aristocracy” is a bit of an overreach.

But nothing is too much of an overreach for a loser academic who’s going nowhere with his life and doing nothing but sniping.


23 posted on 03/17/2012 5:25:17 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius

Revisionism is seldom more than a way of making a buck; rare is it based on discovering a new cache of evidence, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, and even there Wilson seized upon partial reports to conjure all sorts of fanciful stuff.


27 posted on 03/17/2012 6:14:22 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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