Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-17
ST. PATRICK Is CELEBRATED
 TODAY
Patron Saint of Ireland Is Celebrated in Bisbee To day. Something About This Justly Famous Man.

When your neighbor approaches you this morning with that signs of the Aud Sod the Shamrock, embedd ed in a green background, be not agraid. for it is the proper celebration of the Petron Saint of Ireland, the seventeenth day of March
 St. Patrick lived about 373 A. D. Of the existence of this holy man there is no question, but every other fact about him has been hotly disputed This is the more strange as he left an autobiography, but as his object in it was to eNalt the work than the worker he was not careful to give the facts in their chronological order, or 10 detail his own life So that for the purpose of sketch of his life the document has little value. Ac- cording Co the facts which can be gathered from this work Patrick was born at Banavem Taberniaem. Scot land. probably identical with the mod ern Dumbartun on the Leyen, near it's confidence with the Clyde. few miles northwest of Glasgow. His father was Calpornius. deacon in the church, also a Decurion and man Of means and standing
 His baptismal name was Sucat. When he was sixteen years old he was captured by pirates and carried to Ireland, where he was sold 10 Mil liuc chiertan of North Dalaradia. in County Antrim. North Ireland He lived as a slave for six years, em. ployed in the tending of cattle His sad condition drove him to find con. solatiou iu God, and he learned to wait upon the Divine WILL
 In obedience to a Divine intimation he fled from his master and journey ed south, two hundred miles. He found a ship about to sail for France, and after little barley was taken on board as servant And in three days he was landed at the mouth of the Loire
 Then for twenty-eight days he tray- eled the wild country with the ships company until they came to Marscill es Here he parted from his compan- ions and went to Tours. where the famous Martin was bishop. If. as some accounts state, his mother was the sister of this Martin. his going to Tours was the more natural He lived with Martin for four years. At last he returned to Scotland But the desire to devote himself to preaching the gospel to the Irish was strength ened by visions and voices. and he went to AuNerre. in France, to be con secrated by Bishop Amator IL was on this occasion that he assumed the name of Patrick by which he is now exclusively known
 In 405 he began his missionary work in Ireland and the rest of his long life was spent in incessaut. labor with commensurate success. He came 10 Ireland with a thorough knowledge of the language and Of the people and seems to have encountered little opposition. He found no Christ ians and left no heathens. lt is proL. able that he died in Armagh in 463.
 Besides the Patrick of history there is a Patrick of legend and the less attractive Patrick Of controversy Among the many legends which have gathered about him is one that he banished the snakes from Ireland Others represent him as escaping from his foes by miraculous agencies For example it is related that on ono ggaal li911 tt.ban a opU1pauv ,t-ae in wal to slay Patrick and his companions he canted his hymn called Breast plate' and the opponents mistook th' Christians for wild deer with a fawI behind them These legends have en chanted Patrcks reputation ana doubtless have some foundation il fact