The Patrons Of Erin
Subtitle: Or, Some Account Of St. Patrick And St. Brigid
Publisher: C. Dolman
Published: 1859
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: Christianity introduced into Ireland — Early bishops — Mission of Palladius — Its failure Page 1; title: CHAPTER II.; title: Parents of St. Patrick — His birth and baptism — A blind man restored to sight — His early life and mirages 8; title: CHAPTER III.; title: He is carried into captivity, and sold as a slave in Ireland — How he passed his days in prayer, and how, at length, he was freed from slavery — His trials during his journey home 14; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: His second captivity — How God often spoke interiorly to his soul, and favoured him with many visions — He leaves home to study for the priesthood — Visits Rome, and is appointed to succeed Palladius — Is consecrated bishop, and arrives in Ireland 21; title: CHAPTER V.; title: The conversion of Dicho — The first church erected in Ireland — The punishment of Sacrilege — Other conversions — The fearful death of Milcho, and the conversion of his son and daughters — Mochna, a young herdsman, becomes a Christian 30; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: How the saint visited Tara, and preached before the monarch and his court 37; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: King Leogaire receives the saint at Tara — Herco converted — The trial between the magician and the Christians — The miserable death of the former — The success of the saint's preaching Page 49; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: How the saint retired to keep Lent — He visits the Christians in Monster — Foilge attempts to put St. Patrick to death — The martyrdom of his charioteer — The conversion of Maccaldus, the robber — The saint's zeal against slavery 64; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: The erection of the church and see of Armagh — The Saint visits Rome a second time, and brings back some precious relics — He holds several synods — His daily life 73; title: CHAPTER X.; title: The last illness and death of the saint — How his obsequies were celebrated 83; title: CHAPTER XI.; title: St. Brigid — Her birth — Early miracle — Her vision — Collects holy virgins in community — Erects the convent of Kildare — Its richness — Devastated by the Danes 90; title: CHAPTER XII.; title: Her manner of life — Meets with a young scholastic — Her great charity to the poor — Her miracles — Called the Mary of the Irish — Her death 99