The Sierra citizen., 1859-03-19
Ireland and st. Patrick.

Thomas Mooney, editor of !" MONEYS Folsom and
P,aeevile Express" and the author of history of
Ireland s like all intellectual liberty and country low
ing rishmen eloquent in his Irish enthusiasm His pa
per- though graced by American adaptation times
seems to be the very roice of Ireland calling up the
buried splendors Of the nation and striving awaken
the dead powers of Irish impulse In the number for
this week. we find article in commemo ration of ST.
Patricks Day and from it learn that Mall the Grand
Irish cheftain, harrassed the Romans in Britain and
while fighting with them through Gaul, took hun
dred captives These he carried to Ireland and sold,
for the period of seven years. according to the custom
of those ages. Among them Patrick then sixteen
years of age and his two sisters Lupeda and Deverc
"The youth was sold to one .Milcho. living in that
part of the island known Antrim. where be ap-
pointed shepherd. The mountain now known SEobh
Miss, the Mountain of the Moon, the place of
years of servitude ended Patrick returned to the con
nent and obtained entrance into the College of Tours
in which his uncle Martin teacher In this place
he studied for four years This in 397 After St.
Martins DEATH in four five years. he for Rome
Here he admitted among the prebendaries of St.
John of Lateran 403 he then thirty years of
age. For time he studied here He afterwards
visited several holy retreats in the islands of the Medi
terranean, and attached himself to the barefooed order
of ST. Augustine. From these he went in 41S study
with St Germain at Auxerre. Here prepared himself
Christianity which subsequently, crowned his life. Leav-
ing ST. German, he entered the monastery of the Isle of
Lerus where he continued for nine in close study
After his leaving Lerus he returned to AuXerre to his
beloved friend st. German. When the Of Palla-
duss death had reached them from Ireland (Paladius
had previously preached Christianity in Ireland with
come trhing success.) st. German sent him to Rome
with instructions upon the mission to Ireland He was
then ammo 430 thirty eight years DID,;
Returning to Ireland Patrick commenced the work of
conversion and convincing his arguments that
aD0t then thp mons arch
exclaimed, 1t is better should believe than die The
queen the monarch and their two daughters con-
verted. 1t was this occasion that ST. Patrick. when
told by the Druids that the doctrine of the trinity
absurd three could not exist in one. stopped down
and pulling shamrock [three leafed sorrel cover
which has three leaves on one stem. replied To prove
the reality and possibility Of the existence of the Father
Son, and Holy Ghost, have only to hold up this hum
BILE plant which have trodden and convince you
that truth be atesed by the simplest symbol Of Is
lustraton' Such was the manner in which the mild but
truly eloquent apostle of Christianity introduced that
change in the religion of Ireland which softened and
refined the manners of chivarous and warlike
into nation OF apostles and preachers of the Christian
divinity"
"The Christian preachers in almost every other nation
encountered persecution. imprisonment and death Ire
land received the faith without shedding drop of bood'
The parishes rectOies and deaneres establish
ed by the apostle remain the eccles astca boundaries
of the English Church in Ireland to this day."
'After long life of piey. usefulness and fame, the
Saint sank to rest at the age of hundred and twenty
six honored and revered by nations He sank peace
fully the bright lumnary of heaven in the distant west,
blending his glory with the light of the gospel sun. No
pOmp heralded his coming mailed armies guard ed
his dying bed the heralds of heaven bore him to the
presence of his CREATOR
Historians differ about the birth. place of Patrick
O'Rallaran contending that his parents Welsh
the fathers side, and Gaush on the mothers; whilst
Moore contends for his Roman extraction. And although
there have been written upwards OF sixty separate bog
raphies Of this remarkable missionary yet not
truly certain whether to assign him Welsh Gaush or
Roman parenage but after ALL the parentage of such
matters not much for he born for mankind
and for religion
The very interesting article from which have been
quoting. commences with expressions of lofty patri
otism and the portions which excite aspiring emotions
u.s. have transposed for the perusal of our readers
"On the 18th of March, millions of and
who born in Ireland and scattered the earth,
bend their knees before the sign of Christ Those scat
tered voares begin their devotional mementos where
the earth on the l7thfrst sees the morning sun
As the globe revoves and Irshmen rise from their BEDS
all round it. their first impulses prompt them to make
manifestation of their nationality and their Chris
tan faith Whether they the east the west.
the north the south of the globe, this is their in
stinct on Saint Patrick's day.
The followers of Mahomet wherever they are, bend
their heads every day toward the east at the suns me
dian. The Jews in their fight from bondage. carried
their household harps and sang the old songs of their
Egyptian faherland in the wilderness of Canaan though
that fatheriand TO them. a dungeon.
Ireland is one vast dungeon. where six millions of
prisoners securely kept-breeding and rearing other
prisoners, within the limits prescribed by their Jail
ors. How long, O God for how long. is known to
thee alone But though born in dungeon yet it is that
dungeon where first the ght of the gorgeous
there first heard the of mothers voice
there felt the of mothers lip! Go where
may, to the east the west Ireland with all her
griefs and gories, follows in path haunts rs in
dreams and stirs with uncomfortable impulses in
our daylight hours.
Censure not, ye who not of our nation. for Civ
ing ourselves up this overwhelming feeling We
not labor st. Parick's Day--we do nothing but
Joy think greve. because that day is apart by
whole race at home and abroad for the exercise of
the faithful memory. The affairs of the passing gener
ation nothing in estimate, in comparison with
the exalted images of other days. which gather the
disks of brain and make live again in company
with the illustrous dead.
triple consideration makes think so affectionate-
ly of ST. Parick's Day First it is the birth day. or
rather the death day, of the great who preached
Christianity to Irish forefahers second is day
on which we renew annually adherence to that old
faith which we believe St. Patrick preached and for
adherng firmly to which forefathers suffered in
the dungeon, at the stake and the scafOld Third
it is the day set apart to rejon brothers in
and faith all the world and to pledge the "hope
within springing that fatherland may yet be
free. Passing from heart to heart the Proneheon fire,
as electricity flies along the wires. nhames without
failure and without error the scattered fragments of
really powerful nation.
Upbrad not because parent is poor and in the
custody of catf bailis Have not, hoping against
free when the prudent world smiled in pity at the
attempt because unsuccessful? We are not guilty of
mothers slavery. Have not her children given
martyrs in every generation to the trials for her liberty?
even while write there not confessors of
nation before the Judges asserting, with manacles