Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-03-17
BIRTHPLACE OF
IRELAND'S SAINT
Has Been Ascribed 10 Scotland
Among Other Countrles-His
Lahors in the Emerald
Isle.

~ r. PATRICK. the shamrock and
Ireland are hard to disassociate.
whether the one or another
comes first IN mind II Ii u
common story. OF course. as to the use
that the saint put the shamrock when
converting some Gaelic chIeftains
how they stood by the roadside. with
the emerald fields OF ireland spread
ing out on either side. and the mis-
sionary stopped. plucked a shamrock
and held II up before tho scoffer. AS
typlfying the Holy Trinity II Is also
commonly told that st. Patrick was of
Tered his mission to the Isle by the
pope. and that he WAS OF French or
Genoese extraction.
In a somewhat lengthy biography
an authority recognized as first an.
nounces that after much investigation.
research and travel, he is certain st.
Patrick was a native Of Scotland. bit
Of a city called Fitzpatrick diBputing
with another bit OF city called Dunn.
barton for the honor Of being his birth.
place. The exact year 10 not debated
upon, though q popular writer on mod
ern customs AYERS $50 TO be correct.
That st. Patriok's mother vas Gaelic
seems to be generally accredited.
Doubt Of his purely Gaelic parentago
Is increased By the fact that he Ia
said to have been obliged 10 acquire
the Gaelic language" says another
authority. His father. he states In bis
confessions, was a farmer and d dea.
con OF the church. and his GRANDPA
Their was > priest. all clergy being al.
lowed to marry at that time.
The Isle Of Man was one scene OF
the saints labors, as was also the west.
ern part of Scotland. no that the Scot.
fish theory Of his native place may
not be simply a theory and no more
Yet II was not until he was forty.tiye
years old that he was enabled To es-
cape slavery. which he had been
driven into az the age OF sixteen. along
with several thousand others. who
were caught and herded together by
Irish pirates and taken into the wlids
OF northern Ireland. And II was not
until nearly twenty years after this
abduction that he was able to return
from the continent. whittier he had
fed for freedom. That he landed IN
France after escaping Britain is den.
nitely known; except that he is found
few years later down In Rome, little
Ia known OF how or where he acquired
the necessary learning to take the
gospel back to the north country
Zeal. perhaps. and simple faith, and
not a little confidence In the Insplra.
tion he believed his. served greater
purposes than the Law OF lltanies and
the finesse of dogma.
In any event. after he had accompa.
MED SITS. Lupus and Germanus into
the British Isles, to preach against
the growing PeIagian heresy.- and had
retired again to the continent. Ger.
manus induced him 10 go into the pres
ence Of the pontiH and ask for q regu.
lar mission to his old home.
Celestine Was head OF the Roman
| church In that period. and he had
I sent only the deacon. PalIadius and
/ twelve assistants Into Ireland during
| the reign, so he granted the request OF
! the zeaiet who had been named Sue.
i cat. but now assumed the name of
] EaAAASlMs VI EAAA AShs IaAFlfh was EiEeN
a group Of attendants and made haste
\ to the old familiar fields Of his youth
Having crossed the channel and
| come upon the River Dea. he decided
/ 70 30 ashore there. near Stamford
| Tough. and remain Tor e time The
| fishermen idling along the banks re
/ fused the entraaty for enough ash 10
sustain the small cannDang for = for,
hours. and the missionary. IN righteous
wrath. cursed the river. whence ne
more fish were ever taken. says a
legend. and turned and took his men
uorthwaFd without further barley.
After = time they found The road l..
the home Of Milcho. the former sue
cats aged master There the price
Of his freedom was to be tendered by
PatTicius and the labor OF love for his
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