Where was Saint Patrick from? Brittany! Read my comment at the end. I am sure my friend Thomas A. Szyszkiewicz won’t mind my posting his comments about the new film. Here they are (from Catholic World Report, March 3): I … Continue reading
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Russian Orthodox Add St. Patrick to Their Calendar
This is rather peculiar. Patrick got the Orthodox imprimatur because his testimony to papal authority was not used by the Latins against the defenders of schism. Hardly qui tacit consentire. Saint Patrick was not dealing with heresies or schisms in … Continue reading
St. Darerca, Sister of St. Patrick, Mother of 22, 17 Saints
Why not! God is wonderful in His saints and the patron saint of Ireland was wonderfully blessed. New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Darerca, of Ireland, a sister of St. Patrick. Much obscurity attaches to her history, and it is not easy … Continue reading
St. Patrick DID Kick the Snakes Out of Ireland
Next time any heretic tells you he did not, hurl an anathema, and have them read this essay https://catholicism.org/snakes-be-gone.html.
Saint Patrick and Irish Slaves: The Slave Trade in Barbados
I was reading this outstanding article this morning by Kevin J. Jones for CNA website about Saint Patrick’s dedication to freeing the Irish slaves from the hands of the pirate Coroticus, who had taken him away as a youth from … Continue reading
Saint Patrick Raised 33 People from the Dead: Here Are a Few Examples
Excerpt from Saints Who Raised the Dead, True Stories of 400 Resurrection Miracles, by Fr. Albert J. Hebert, S. M. It has been said that St. Patrick (c. 389-c. 461) performed a thousand miracles. And why not? Many more (40,000) … Continue reading
The Apostles of the Nations
In teaching the history of the Church, Brother Francis had a simple system. Along with the many historical books from well-known Catholic authors that he required his students to read, he provided an expanding list of memory items that began … Continue reading
Catholic Online’s 10 Things to Know About St. Patrick
Actually they list eleven things. I respectfully take issue, however, with the way the website news’ editor describes the Trinity in item number 7, where he notes that Saint Patrick used the three-leaf shamrock to demonstrate the doctrine of the … Continue reading
St. Patrick, From Shepherding Sheep As a Slave to Apostle of a Nation
Deacon Fournier has a wonderful article here on Saint Patrick in today’s Catholic Online website. I had forgotten that Patrick was not living the Faith when he was captured by Irish pirates, even though he had pious parents. He turned … Continue reading
Saint Patrick, Rekindle the Faith of Your Children
For some reason a line from the crazy Irishman in Braveheart comes to mind: “It’s my island.” The emerald isle is Patrick’s island. How far your people have wandered, O great shepherd, from the path of the cross that they … Continue reading
Snakes Be Gone
I want to get these facts out a month early, so that come next month, the 17th of March to be precise, when some smart-aleck, Irish Catholic, college grad writes in your local paper that there were no snakes in … Continue reading
