Show areda ireland nd S patron atron saint wl A V P A p X Z vt PF A val A i ast ast PATRICKS PLACE OF BIRTH LONG IN DISPUTE ZA aft s V j nom boston a bitter cry that t B the mention of a scotch birth 8 place tor far st patrick la Is not to SA be 10 tolerated tile tho controversy 46 i li iq tin nn old one and this Is not a place v 04 for fol taking sides bides so wo we will nordy V present the ilia rival views to the inter 1010 osted render reader it would that like isomer moro more than one spot is 13 B prepared to do battle for the honor 0 of being patricks birthplace scot acot 18 81 land wales walea and brittany being till nil ga 0 contestants 7 k first let our well rend read c correspond 0 A out cut speak W 1 I have rend read every author worth rending reading on oil ilia quest question lon and with V only one desire nain namely cly to find out oga tile truth and have nu no more doubt S on llie question that lie he was vern lorn I 1 in YA brittany thail I 1 have that lie ho was a 61 vent real live I 1 guinan being 1 anti and ift ft scotch desire to appropriate every tiling thing and everybody worth while Is tho ilia cause of ilia error in tho the case an t ifor for every line 11 no that can be said CT about ills his french will birth ono one hundred rt tire on oil the british island i side but such claimants have no fc critical c on oil their side it 14 till all a part ot of thu the so called angia iq saxon propaganda and I 1 hope that when ilia paper again alludes to tho the 00 question it will go into tho the facts of tile case which the scotch claims 1 I ants never do see Noti noticing ting olian tj S ion professor moore protestant c Lann lean don phillp philip father canon fleming miss 26 C Ci isack 11 stick I 1 father ather 01 ofarrell arrell and a host ui of ort icis for ilia full nna analysis lysIs of a rr f ailia the case then rend read the best that alint can be 10 said on nn the scotch side by aed archbishop kiealy read professor 1 afa I bury for a complete dImp disposal osul of doc aa av ap tor ITe alys theories theo ilos and then ask yourself it if thero there is 18 a shadow of 0 tile tho on cenlin in left yet wo tire continually dinnee dinned dinnee dinned with ith the dogin dogmatic atle amer assertion tion that st patrick was born bora in scot scotland lavid on of I 1 tho the other hand to quote front from archbishop glenly of lip qa beare it man of learning tind ind authority declared doclar cd that patrick was born in ili bretagne lie ile was tho the first writer of note who put forward that opinion for ito fill an clent writer known to us its ever advanced it the dini culty lifts has been to settle where exactly Bonn avem lae la Is which Is tile the town patrick mentions in its hla confession ns its his 1118 homo le believed in it a french but bul not a breton birthplace doctor states that ills view was a wo modification mention ot at ITO ho says that the Bonn avcin Ta bernine of the confession was tho ilia same town na as boulogne sur mer in cleardy and was the b of our saint but the confession does not state that Donn donnavee avem Taber lao avas patricks birthplace but that it was the place where ills father had a villa from 4 which lie ho himself was carried off of a captive doctor himself states it appears to us to be quite clear front from tho the account the saint gives pf af himself that lie he was a native of the itoman province pro vinco of britain nd in all probability was born on the banks of the Clyd qIn scotland to turn now to professor bury ue writes as follows in ills 11 st patrick in ili tho absence of tiny any trace of a Bann Bantin aventa venta in north british regions wo we must I 1 thinly give decisive weight to the general probabilities ll of the case and suppose that was south of tile the wall of hadrian somewhere lit in western britain not far from tile the const coast after ills his book was in aress lie ho received a communication f bom botn professor illius which led liliu him to add 0 lay wl V A 04 0 52 ARM 1 9 T PATRICKs A stone lay deeply S bedded I 1 in the clay until one of strong hand uncovered it heaved it aloft and made it tile the capsin i i of a noble edifice this Is his description of ills his life lie ho was a centenarian walting waiting for his death when he bo wrote I 1 it I 1 and to ills his eyes the career of the apostle of ireland was a blend of human worthlessness made capable of lofty achievement by the call of god it Is a great mans humble ca estimate of his sharo share in remaking a great nation and itis correct as to tile the humble beginning and the mighty accomplishment aud and the abiding of humility in tho the bosom of the mancho roan who wrought so BO mightily not without reason has the name at of st patrick been held in veneration through these many generations there Is nowhere a teacher whose services for learning exerted so wide an influence in a time so critical crItIc aI for all culture there Is now nowhere liero a states man whose eliose activity so completely reformed the character cliar acter of any people there is nowhere such a national hero whose iamb fame Is sounded across fifteen centuries and can still stir emotion of I 1 ardent far beyond ills his nations shores there la Is nowhere rc a saint eliose teachings tire are blended like ills his with the destinies of ills his nation so th thattie atthe hc invocation of his name calbo at once the cry of patriotic devotion and tile the expression df religious venera alon rev T P mcdonough W ls I 1 4 0 jpy 61 1716 to ills his preface as follows 1 I had conjectured that it should be sought near the severn or theft the bristol channel tho the existence ot at 6 three places named balwen which 0 2 A may inny represent Bann aventa in gla opens a prospect that tile tho solution may possibly lie ile there 04 the reader Is now in possession of 4 0 the rin namee tries of the chief authorities e 0 mod modern rn anil and ancient on the ilia subject and lie he may weigh ind ed AA lannigan tig against alost doctor clealy and ag cardinal moran or colgan ande and QA O against and or ho he may weigh probes sor bury and sir john ithyl against V v them nil all whatever the merits ofa of V A ilia question it cannot be a dogmatic 10 S on either side but evell ft st it if st kt patrick had been born in what bhatt Is now called scotland or britain in neither case cae could it bo be clai claimed nied that lie ile was what Is meant by either of tile the modern terms scotchman or anglo saxon the word scopus in those days meant irishman pure A and simple anti was only given to scotland owing to the fhe irish colonies kt A which undertook civilizing work on oil her west coast argyle moans litera 0 ally tile the land of the V I 1 As for the anglo saxon op that peculiar bread lina had not yet left C tile tho geranan forests when they came to britain they drove thal brit V is asli 11 celts belts westward but eventually 10 Z A adopted their name of briton it Is h safe to describe st 1 celt whether he ha was born in irish scotland celtic brit ift aln or in un franked oat gar Z glicr over ever ills upbringing lie ho came in touch and understanding with both arfin tile doman idea and lie was the first to realize what a 0 ispiro O jr igual combination they were likely s to make Ill history story lias has Ju stilled ills his q ya for today there are aber more bishops in ili tho ilia church A of gaelic blood than of any othi brunch bratich of tile the human fu nilly brinn ift i the tha magazine ireland W oa to av V lip |