Very, very Gnostic.
Even a stopped clock is correct twice a day..
His mother was part Irish (and proud of it), her dad had come over from Ireland as a boy and ran away from his adoptive family to join Sherman's Civil War march at 12 years old, a drummer boy. This dear lady was so in Christ that every Saint Patrick's Day (which was her birthday as well) she would make a paper chain, like one does at Christmas for the tree - only this one was made of orange and green hoops, for peace in her Homeland and among her brethren. I just love that.