Show M mm va 0 43 ST PATRICKS PLACE OF BIRTH LONG IN DISPUTE R 1 ROM boston a bitter cry that ak F the mention of a scotch birth 1 place for st patrick is not to ga be tolerated the controversy Is an old one and this Is not a place w ft for taking sides so we will merely WS present the rival views to the inter ft 0 ested reader it would appear that like romer homer more than one spot Is s A prepared to do battle tor for the honor a ot of being patricks birthplace scot ot jr land wales and brittany being all OA da coates contestants ants i 6 first let our well red correspond 0 ent speak R r 1 11 I have read every author worth ill A reading on the question and with VV only one desire namely to find out 0 the truth and hareno have no more doubt S on the question that he was born la in brittany than I 1 have that he was a A real live human being english and ga w scotch desire ta t appropriate every as 1 thin thins gand and everybody worth while Is a the cause of the error in the case i for every line that can be said ct about his french birth one hundred are written on the british island 0 gt K side but such claimants have no OA ft critical argument on their side it 0 Is all a part of the so called anglo 1 saxon propaganda and I 1 hope th that at V when the paper again alludes to the q OA question it will go into the fact TR S of the case which the scotch claim 11 A ants never do see benting ohan 0 1 ion professor moore protestant OR lannigan don philip rather father morris canon fleming miss w a cusack father ofarrell and a host of others for the full analysis of 0 R the case then read the best that f can be said on the scotch side by archbishop healy read professor ft OA bury for a complete disposal of docs 4 0 j ap 1 P V si jor or Ile healas healys alys theories and then ask yourself it if there Is a shadow of the scotch claim left yet we are continually dinned dinnee with the dogmatic assertion assertion that st patrick was born bom in scotland Scot laud on the other hand to quote from archbishop healy of tuam philip beare a man of learning and authority declared that patrick was born in bretagne he was the first writer of note who put forward that opinion for no ancient writer known to us ever advanced IV it the difficulty has been to settle where whee exactly bon Bonn avem lae is which Is the town patrick mentions in his Confess confession as his home lannigan believed in a french but not a breton birthplace doctor healy states that his view was a modification of OSul livans he says that the Bonn avem lae of the confession was the same town as boulogne sur mer in and was the birthplace of our saint but the confession does not state that Bonn avem lae was patricks birthplace but that it was the place where his father had a villa from which he himself was carried off a captive doctor healy himself states it appears to us to be quite clear from the account the saint gives of himself that he was wag a native of the roman province of britain and in till all probability was born on the banks of the clyde in scotland to turn now to professor bury ife he writes as follows in his st patrick in the absence of any trace of a Bann aventa an north british regions we must I 1 think give decisive weight to the general probabilities of the case and suppose that Bann aventa was south of the wall of hadrian somewhere in western britain not far from the coast after his book was in press he received a communication from professor rhys which led him to add AA aa m a ss to his preface as follows 1 I had conjectured that it should V be sought near the severn or the ifft bristol eb channel annel the existence of 0 va V three places named balwen which 4 04 a may represent Bann aventa in gla V opens a prospect that ft t the solution may possibly lie there V the reader Is now in posses possession n of 0 the names of the chief authorities modern and ancient on the subject and he may weigh and m lannigan against doctor healy and t cardinal moron moran or colgan and A against keating and or he may weigh probes aft sor bury and sir john heys against V t them all whatever the merits of ft the question it cannot be a dogmatic S i assertion usser tion on either side but ewa even fa 40 it st patrick had been born 1 in what V vt Is now called scotland or britain t in neither case could it be claimed that he was what Is meant by either of the modern terms scotchman or anglo saxon the word scopus in those days meant irishman pure ft A and simple and was only given to scotland owing to the irish colonies 01 which undertook civilizing work on V Fl her west coast argyle means liter I 1 aa ally the land of the V vi irish As for the anglo saxon ia that peculiar breed bad not yet left r the german forests when they came to britain they drove the brit V isih ish colts calls westward but eventually adopted their name of briton it Is safe to describe st SL patrick RSC a Romani womanized zed celt act Nh whether ether he was as 1 born in irish scotland celtic brit ft S ts aln ain or in un franked gaul aher Q his he in ill ever upbringing came ti touch ans ad understanding with both 06 the roman idea and he was the first to realize what a spir 40 a igual combination they were likely to make history Ill stori has justified ills his n experiment for today there are arev more bishops in the roman church A othera of gaelic blood than of any other branch of the human family from froin OS the magazine ireland vr 0 Vs a 59 apan 9 JV JUR A AO |