I don’t know much about Roman Catholic religion, but wasn’t this guy a bishop or something?
And thus opposed to sodomy?
Odd that a group he would condemn would want to celebrate him.
RE: I don’t know much about Roman Catholic religion, but wasn’t this guy a bishop or something?
St. Patrick (who was not Irish) was one of the greatest missionaries in the history of Christianity. His work in Ireland for 30 years, converted the pagan Isle into a majority Christian country.
According to this article:
We live in a time of the anti-hero. Too often, the good guys are the bad guys and vice versa. Celebrities are often held up as heroes, until we learn too much about them.
But to see a true hero, look at the real St. Patrick, who has a day dedicated in his honor. Unfortunately, many people only observe his holiday, March 17, by drinking themselves silly, which is totally contrary to the spirit of the man who Christianized Ireland.
In fact, Patrick shows what God can do through someone who is committed fully to Him.
Thomas Cahill, author of the book, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe, notes that Patrick and the Irish came at the moment of a cultural cliff-hanger and played a key role in helping to save civilization.
In the 5th century, barbarians overran the Roman Empire-—which was the repository of much of Western civilization-—until it finally collapsed. Meanwhile, through the missionary work of Patrick (387-461), the gospel was brought to Ireland; and numerous men became monks as a result, who meticulously copied manuscripts of the Bible and of many of the writings of antiquity.
Cahill writes: “For, as the Roman Empire fell, as all through Europe matted, unwashed barbarians descended on the Roman cities, looting artifacts and burning books, the Irish, who were just learning to read and write, took up the great labor of copying all of Western literature-—everything they could lay their hands on.”
He notes, “These scribes then served as conduits through which the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian cultures were transmitted to the tribes of Europe, newly settled amid the rubble and ruined vineyards of the civilization they had overwhelmed.”
Cahill adds, “Without this Service of the Scribes, everything that happened subsequently would have been unthinkable. Without the Mission of the Irish Monks, who single-handedly refounded European civilization throughout the continent in the bays and valleys of their exile, the world that came after then would have been an entirely different one-—a world without books. And our own world would never have come to be.”
The man at the center of all this was St. Patrick.
Yes, St. Patrick is honered as a bishop in the Church.
I can tell you about the church and also about the Irish tradition. I can even tell you about this guy. And you are correct in you logical assumptions
He lived in the three hundreds. So this is a 1700 year old catholic feast day.
He brought Catholic Christianity to Ireland.
The gays who truly revere him are celibate The militant gays are like any other persecutor of the faith going back to its foundation and will always be present and tormenting here on earth
The parade organizers know this. The practicing Irish Catholics know about the enemy. They don’t think about the daily news’ take on it nor a little rain
But this is about the opposite of honoring st Patrick. It’s about wanting the church to act like a democracy and change its mind on this. At worst it’s persecution. The Catholics are no strangers to it. Nor was st Patrick
Dolan is a disgrace. How in the hell this backslapping democrat politician ever became a bishop I will never know. I’m sure after the parade he went to lunch with PRO-ABORT, BABY-MURDERING, HOMO-LOVING DeAssio.