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Show Thursday. March 8, 1923 THi R.NP.H AM mrU.KTlN. WWGH AM CANYON. UTAH ' " Druid priests demanded his punish-ment. ZZj- - 5k ' T1,e klng l,s,ene1 t0 Patrick's ex- - ""S- - ---y M planation of the new religion and al-PL though he did not embrace It himself, he gave permission to the stranger to preach to the people. One of Pat-rick's first converts was the king's daughter, Fedelm, and It Is in that connection that the symbol of the shamrock enters the story of St. Pat-rick. While striving to explain to the princess and her companions the Trin-ity of God God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost and see-ing thnt they did not understand, he suddenly looked down and saw the shamrock, which grows In such pro-fusion all over Ireland. Stooping down, be picked up the tiny plant and held It up three leaves on one stem, the perfect Trinity. This simple em-blem helped bring understanding to the princess and she became a convert to the new faith. Up and down Ireland St. Patrick went, baptizing converts, establishing churches and leaving his assistants to carry on the work In which the simple symbol of the shamrock had Its part. Gradually it became the symbol of Ireland, the nation, as well as the re-ligious symbol of Christianity In that land. The triumph of St. Patrick over the pagan Druids Is believed to have given rise to the legend that It was St. Patrick who drove the snakes out of Ireland, the snakes being the sym-bol for the superstitions of the Druid paganism. Bringing Christianity to Ireland was not, however, St. Patrick's only serv-ice to that country and to humanity. He Introduced many progressive Ideas In this pagan country. He brought with him the Latin tongue and Latin books. He also brought another no-ma- n art, that of building stone houses and as he went through Ireland he built not only churches of enduring stone but schools of stone also, nere Latin reading and writing were taught along with the Irish language and these schools grew and became fa-mous. The students of these schools who inherited the tradition of a rich epic and lyric native literature took to the study of languages of Latin, Greek and Hebrew. And when a wave of invasion by the Angles, the Saxons, the Lombards, the Goths, Vandals and Huns swept over western Europe and all but wiped out learning and clas-sical culture it was from these schools In Ireland that there came a return wave which helped restore it So not only the Irish but the whole world owes something to the man who died on March 17, 401, and whose memory Is recalled each year when March 17 comes 'round again. T By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Drawing by Ray Walters. ARCH 17 is a day for --the Ml" wearing of the green" and the display of the shamrock, a day to honor ljS?? the patron saint of Ire-f(23- land because It was on a t jsSL Marcn 17 more thun 1,400 &4igjiF years ago that he died. It Is a day which Is celebrated by every true son of the "ould sod," but how many of them realize that in so doing they are honoring the memory of a man who was not born an Irish- - man, even though he became the patron saint of that country? In fact, if what seems to be the most reliable tradition is true St. Patrick was a Scotchman and as such he Is entitled to the veneration not only of the Irish but of the Scotch as well. More than that, he may well be remembered by all Christians, whatever their na-tionality, for It was he who brought about the triumph of Christianity over paganism away back in the days when the phrase "the wild Irish" was truer than It has ever been since. There are several versions of the story of St. Patrick's parentage and birthplace but the strongest evidence as to the latter points to a epot called Kllpatrick ("Patrick's Celt") near Dumbarton, on the River Clyde, In Scotland. That he was a Celt there Is no doubt, and he himself In his con-fessions has told us that, he was born among the Britons and therefore among the Latin-speakin- g people who had been converted to Christianity. His father's name was Calpurnlus, a Decurlon. a landowner and town coun-selor In a Roman town which Is thought to have been on the coast of Wales, probably a colony from the op-posite Irish coast, since there was fre-quent travel across the narrow sea be-tween thesv two bodies of land, both trading trips and warlike expeditions. It was during one of the latter about A. D. 405 tlihr"PatrIck, then a boy of sixteen, was taken prisoner by the high king of Ireland, Nlall, who had his stronghold at Tura, from which he set out on many raids against neighboring tribes. Later Patrick was sold to a petty king named Mllchu, who governed the district around Slemlsh mountain in North Antrim. King Milchu set Patrick to herdlns swine on the cold slope? of the moun-tain. Often the boy spent his nights in prayer and It Is said that during j u one of these vigils he had a dream In which his own people seemed to call to hi in. After six years of captivity, Inspired by his dream he escaped and made his way across Ireland to the east coast where he boarded a ship which took him to some port In Gaul, prob-ably Bordeaux. For the next few yean he lived on an island off the coast near Cannes and there attended the school of Uonoratus, learning to read and write Latin and studying re-ligion. Later he returned to Britain, where he was warmly welcomed by his relatives. Here he had a second dream which Inspired In him a desire to lead a mission to Ireland. Ir order to prepare himself for his expedition to Ireland, Patrick went back to Gaul and for a time made his home at Auxerre. There he was or-dained by Bishop Aniutor and In the year 432 Patrick was consecrated bishop by Gcrmanus who approved of his mission to Ireland. In that same year Patrick arrived off the coast of Wlcklow with a shipload of mission-aries, both men and women. The party' was driven from the shore when they attempted to land, so they turned their ship north and disembarked at a place called Saul in Down. From there they went in chariots and on foot to the Hill of Slane near Terra, which was the seat of King Laoghalre, or Lae-galr- (from whom the modern O'Learya are descended), the son of King Nlall, who was then reigning In Meath. It was about Easter time, when the Druids held their principal feasts of the year. On the order of the king all of the house fires on the Island were extinguls-hed- . Then the Druid priests lighted the Bel Fire on Tara hill. From this seedfire of Bel, blessed by the gods, the people were to take blazing brands with which to rekindle the fires on their hearths, and It was a great sin for anyone to kindle their Ires except In this manner. In defiance of this tradition Patrick gathered a heap of brosna or rough fuel on the crest of Slane hill, oppo site Tara, and while the Druid priests looked on angrily, lighted bis fire be-fore the Druids had started theirs Immediately there were riotous scenes, and Patrick was commanded to appear before the king and explain his sac-rilegious act. Arriving before the king, Patrick was surprised to find that monarch hospitable and willing to listen to the stranger, although the The Bingham Bulletin Entered as second-clas- s matter at the postoffice at Bingham Canyon, Utah, under the Act of Congress of March 1879. 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