The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-03-17
BIRTHPLACE OF
IRELAND'S SAINT
Has Been AsCribed to Scotland
Among Other Countrles-Hls
Labors In the Emerald
Isle.

ut. PATRICK. the shamrock and
Ireland are hard to dlsassociate,
4 whether the one or another
comes first In mind. II Is q
common story. OF course. rs TO the use
chat 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. plueked a shamrock
and held II up before the scoffor. as
IMPLYING the Holy Trinity. II Is also
commonly told that st. Patrick was Of
fored 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 hrst an
nounces that after much investigation,
research and travel. no is certain st.
Patrick was a native of Scotland. a bit
OF n city called Fitzpatrick disputing
with another bit of city called Dunn
barton for the honor of being his birth.
place. The exact year Is not debated
upon. though a popular writer on mod.
ern customs AYERS $50 to be correct.
That 81. Patrick's mother was Gaelic
seems to DO generally accredited.
Doubt OF his purely Gaelic pal entage
Is increased by tho fact that he ia
said to have been obliged TO acquire
the Gaelic language" says another
authority. His father. he states In his
confessions. was a farmer and a 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. so that the Scot.
kish theory OF his native place may
not be simply theory and no more.
Yet II was not until no was forty.flve
years old that no was enabled to es.
cape slavery. which no had boon
driven into at the age OF sixteen, along
with several thousand others. who
were caught and herded together by
Irish pirates and taken into the wilds
OF northern Ireland And II was not
until nearly twenty years after this
abduction that be was able to return
from the continent. whittier he had
fed for freedom. That he landed in
France after escaping Britain Is doti |
nitely known; except that he IL found |
a few years later down In Rome. little |
Is known OF how or where no acquired |
the necessary learning 10 take the |
gospel back to the north country.
Zeal. perhaps. and simple faith. and |
not It'll confidence In the inspira. |
tion he believed his. served greater |
purposes than tho law OF litanies and |
the hnesse OF dogma.
In any event. after he had aecompa. |
MED SITS. Lupus and Germanus into |
tho British Isles. TO preach against |
the growing Pelagian heresy," and had |
retired again to the continent, Ger.
inGRus induced him To go into the pres. |
enee of the pontifI and ask for a regu. |
lar mission TO his old home.
celestine was head OF the Roman
church In that period. and he had
sent only the deacon. Palladies and
twelve assistants into Ireland during
the reign. 80 he granted the request OF
the zealot who had been named Sue.
cat, but now assumed the name OF
Patricius or Patrick. Patrick was given
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
10 go ashore there, near Stamford