[Augustinian monk]

Green beer , anyone?

[IrishCatholic]

Sigh, I think you have had enough.

Not quite the Discovery Channel locating the tomb of Jesus, Mary, Joseph and their dog Spot, but was this drivel necessary?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I prefer mine ORANGE. 8~)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Kind of hard to claim that a man who was consecrated as a priest and bishop, who studied in monasteries, ordained priests, set up groups of dedicated virgins like St. Bridget, could be considered a Baptist.

But he was a man who deeply, deeply loved God.

And the world is a better place because he answered God's call.

[Commander8]

Thank you for posting this!

[Suzy Quzy]

Patrick is a SAINT BECAUSE he was a Catholic....the Baptists don't HAVE saints...DUH.

What is up with non-Catholics trying to de-moralize Catholics?? Ridiculous or jealously??

The Baptists don't think Catholics are CHRISTIAn....what a pathetic joke their leaders are trying pull off on them.

[Campion]

His father was a Christian deacon and his grandfather a clergyman in the ancient church of Britain, which had never come under the yoke of Rome.

History check. The "ancient church of Britain" was founded by the Romans, all myths about its alleged foundation by Joseph of Arimathea notwithstanding. The first Christians in Britain were Romans.

Britain was a Christian and Catholic country by the time Roman authority fell apart in the 5th century.

[Campion]

Oh, and, if I'm not mistaken, Ireland is not a Baptist country.

When, where, and how did the Papists take over Ireland? Dates, places, and documentation, please.

[jude24]

What is this baloney?

The Baptists were an off-shoot of the Anabaptist Reformation. You will search in vain for a credible antecedent to the Baptists before John Smyth, a Puritan separatist. Reformed Christianity simply did not exist when St. Patrick was roaming fair Ireland. In AD 500 (when St. Patrick died), there weren't any other churches worth considering. There was the One Church, and a few splinter churches you wouldn't recognize as Christian either (mostly non-Trinitarian).

Heck, this was even before the East-West split.

This is a bogus attempt to hijack a man who was, without a doubt, a Bishop in the catholic church. There's no way a Bishop was Baptist. He might not recognize some of the teachings and practices that crept in the thousand years after him, but that does not change the fact that he was catholic.

I'll never understand why Protestants are so afraid of their Catholic heritage. I sure as heck am not.

[CholeraJoe]

St Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. He didn't pick them up and play with them like a true Baptist would.

[NYer]

ROFL!! - two days of entertaining threads here at FR. My side aches from the laughter.

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Patrick

Also known as

Apostle of Ireland; Maewyn Succat; Patricius; Patrizio

Memorial

17 March

Profile

Kidnapped from the British mainland around age 16, and shipped to Ireland as a slave. Sent to the mountains as a shepherd, he spent his time in prayer. After six years of this life, he received had a dream in which he was commanded to return to Britain; seeing it as a sign, he escaped. He studied in several monasteries in Europe. Priest. Bishop. Sent by Pope Saint Celestine to evangelize England, then Ireland, during which his chariot driver was Saint Odran, and Saint Jarlath was one of his spiritual students. In 33 years he effectively converted the Ireland. In the Middle Ages Ireland became known as the Land of Saints, and during the Dark Ages its monasteries were the great repositories of learning in Europe, all a consequence of Patrick's ministry.

Born

387-390 at Scotland as Maewyn Succat

Died

461-464 at Saul, County Down, Ireland

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St. Patrick is the patron saint of those who fear snakes. Do you think that might be the link to the Protestants?

[Dinsdale]

St. Patrick was an engineer.

The reasoning goes like this:

St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland.

(Here the reasoning splits into two tracks).

1. Snakes are similar to worms. Therefor he engineered the first 'worm drive'. Therefor he was an engineer.

2. To drive all the snakes out of Ireland he must have been very clever. Therefor he was, obviously, an engineer.

Gotta wounder what PC has done to the 'Engineers Week' celebrations. Bet they canceled the 'hop, skip and puke' event.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Hey! That was Ian Paisley's idea! :-P

"I know for a fact that St. Patrick was a Protestant!"

Ireland ping!

[mockingbyrd]

This is the way Patrick speaks: "I knew not the true God . . . The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelief . . . I was not worthy . . . Love of God and fear of Him increased more and more . . . By the help of God so it came to pass . . . Because of His indwelling Spirit who hath worked in me until this day . . . Let who will laugh and insult . . . Though I be rude in all things . . . I baptize so many thousands of men . . . the Lord ordained clergy everywhere by means of my mediocrity . . . The Lord is mighty to grant to me afterward to be myself spent for your souls."

Yeah, let's try reading it without agenda driven editing....

St. Patrick's Confession

[dangus]

Everyone seems to be missing the real insidious, evil nature of this peice, which has the purpose of repeating the damnable lies that the Catholic Church rejects the authority of Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible.

[redhead]

Well, let's see, now...Wasn't Luther an Augustinian monk? (just curious...)

[fkabuckeyesrule]

Well if St. Ptrick served home-made ice cream and bar-B-Q at the church picnics then maybe he was baptist. LOL!

[B-Chan]

[vladimir998]

This is nuts.

It is also proven wrong by the Protestant Church historian, James McGoldrick, in his book Baptist Successionism. McGoldrick very deliberately exposes this and other Protestant phony histories as exactly that -- phony, concocted histories engineered by Protestant desperate to believe they had some history they didn't actually possess.

[R. Scott]

I am thoroughly convinced that he was not affiliated in any way with the Roman hierarchy.

Patrick wasn’t with the Roman Church - he was with the Celtic Church.

[Smocker]

Well, it was the Catholic Church that venerates him as a Saint. So, I guess I'll just keep thinking of him as a Catholic Saint.