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ST PATRICKS PATRICK'S PLACE OF BIRTH LONG LONGIN IN DISPUTE ROM nOM Boston a bitter cry that F FROM the mention of a Scotch birthplace birthplace birthplace birth birth- place for St St. Patrick is not to tobe be tolerated The controversy is an old one and this Is not Dot a place g M for taking sides so we will merely present the rival views to the interested Interested Inter inter- s' s ested reader It would appear that like Homer more than one spoils prepared to go ill battle for th honor honorof Ih of being Patrick's Patricks Tot I land Wales Vales und Brittany bk bi g rii alLI all I contestants J Ii First let our well read ent eat speak f I II IIii I 1 have read rend every auth worth reading on the question i iid with s anI only one desire namely out outs s the truth and have no mos mon doubt doubton W Won on the question that he waS orn In I i Brittany than I have ha that hi owns was a areal areal Ii real live human being Engish and andt t Scotch desire to everything every every- I thing and everybody worth Is the cause of the thc error In tie case I I For or every ery line that can l le said about his French birth one undred t are written on the British c side but such claimants Live no i. i critical argument on their de It ItIs Itis is all nIl a part of the so so Saxon propaganda and I 1 h pe that when the paper again agnin alludes to the thea a question It will go Into uSe facts W of the case which the Scotch Scot 1 claimants claimants claimants claim claim- ants never do See I w Ion lon Professor ProCessor Moore Pr Protestant Lannigan Don Philip O'SUllivan Father Morris Canon g Miss lIss Cusack Father OFarrell and a n host Q cp of ot others for the full ana analysis of the case Then read the b vest liest st that can be said on the Scotch by Archbishop Bea Healy y r read ad P Professor Bury for a complete Doc Doc- J J tor Healys Healy's theories and then ask yourself If there is a shadow of the Scotch cotchi claim left lett Yet we are arc continually continually continually con con- dinned with the dogmatic assertion that St Patrick was born In Scotland On the Other ther hand to quote from Archbishop Healy of at Tuam Philip Sullivan Beare a man manof manof manof of learning rind and authority declared that Patrick was born barn In Bretagne lIe He was the first writer of note who put forward that opinion for no ancient an an- dent cleat writer known to us ever advanced ad it The difficulty culty has been to settle where exactly Is which is the town Patrick Pat rick rich mentions in his Ills Confession as his home Lannigan beti believed ed In a French but not a Breton birthplace Doctor Healy states that his view was a n modification of He says that the of the confession was was the same town as sur Boulogne in and was the birthplace of our saint But the confession does not state that was Patricks Patrick's birthplace but that it was the place where his father had a n villa Illa from which he lie himself was carried at off a captive Doctor Healy himself states It appears to us to be quite clear from the account the saint gives of himself himself him him- self that he was a native of the Roman Reman Ro Re- man Inan province of Britain and In ia all probability was Vas as born on the banks of the in Clyde Clde Scotland To turn now to Professor Bury He Ie writes as follows In his St Patrich Patrick Pat Pat- rick rich In the thc absence of nn any trace of a in north British regions we must I think give decisive deci sive weight to the general probabilities ties of at the case and und suppose that was south of the Wall Vall of Hadrian somewhere in western Britain not far from the coast After his book was In Ia press Dress he received a n communication from foni Professor Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Rhys which led him to add t Si iJ to his preface as follows I had conjectured that it should be sought near the Severn or the I Bristol channel The existence of of three places named which may represent enta annn-enta in Gla- Gla opens a prospect that J the solution may possibly lie He there The reader is now in possession of the thc names of the chief authorities modern and ancient on the subject 4 III 4 and he may weigh O'Sullivan and Lannigan against Doctor Healy and Cardinal Moran or Colgan and C against Keating Kenting and Or lIe he may weigh Professor Prates Prates- J sor Bury and Sir John Rhys nh's against them all nil Whatever the merits of of J the thc question it cannot be a do matl 5 assertion on either elther side n t e en e fi g If St. St Patrick had been born in what Is now called Scotland or Britain in neither case could It be claimed 5 that he was what Is meant by either either of the modern terms Scotchman or Anglo Saxon The word 4 in those days meant Irishman pure j 1 jand and simple and was only given giyen to ty Scotland owing to the Irish colonies which undertook civilizing work on her west coast Argyle means menns literally literally literally liter- liter t J ally the land of ot the Irish As for the thc Saxon Anglo c Ji that peculiar breed had not yet left the German Gennan forests When they i came to Britain they drove droe the British British Brit Brit- rit- rit ish Celts westward but eventually adopted their name of Briton Itis Itis It Itis is safe to describe St. St Patrick as asa asa Q Qa a Celt whether he was g born orn In Ia Scotland Irish-Scotland Celtic Brit Brit- g am aln or In Un-Franked Un Gaul Wherever ever cyer his upbringing he came In touch and understanding with both the Roman noman Idea and He Hewus was the first to realize what a spir- spir f ituni Hual combination they were likely to make History has Justified his f f experiment for today there are more bishops In the Roman Homan church O of Gaelic blood than of an any r t branch of the human family From From y the Magazine Ireland |
