Tis enough to make a Lepra'cohen cry 'aye' tis true...(originally pronounced oye)...inna enough to find out St Paddy is really English? and now to find Lepracohens are actually Jewish?)
It's enough to 'drive an Irishman to drink'...on the other hand the only excuse he needs for that...is to still be breathin' and maybe not even that...
LOL! - If I don't tell anyone else that St. Patrick was British, will you promise not to tell anyone St George was a turk! ;-)
Well, only if we insist on using that label. Those who have continued to be labeled "Protest-ants" after the Reformation were actually called "Christians" in the first century but, I can assure you, Christians who worshipped God through His teachings alone certainly *did* exist and have (obviously) existed since Christ walked the earth. In fact, most of the earliest Christians often referred to themselves as Jews. It was Romanism that developed later.
But we must remember that those who were origianally labeled "Protestants" in the 1500s were specifically those who were *in* the Roman system when her heresies were exposed, and then "protested" the system from which they fled in order to restore themselves to a pure Christianity that was closer to that which was practiced in the first century.