| Show IRELAND AND ST PATRICK tins tinis in ie st patricks patrick day by many it to called the lath of ireland and add by others the irish fourth of july at all events it is a day almost as marked inthe united states as any national holiday persons of other nativity than that of ireland are familiar with this date and if speaking ope aking on any occurrence which might have happened on brabaut this time generally speak of it as occurring about st patricks day probably there is not in the history of primitive christianity any character about whom so BO much misconception and misinformation exists exis as the person commonly called st patrick there is only one fact concerning hia hi a that all authorities airee agree on and that to la that he was nut not born barn in ireland the preponderance of evidence goen to show that he was a native of prance france and that his birthplace was by the sea many respectable writers contend that he first was the light in scotland his birthplace being near the site of bf the modern dumbarton at the mouth of the clyde there is still a place near there called kilpatrick and it is supposed it was so called from being the place of his bis birth but if this were so the KIP kil would hardly be retained unless he be had founded a church there during his mission minion kil is the primitive church establishment founded on the community estem system here is where the misapprehension prevails relating to patricks minion sion it Is if stated that he was commissioned by pope celestini Cele etine to preach the gospel in ireland yet not ft A line or document of any kind exists to this was the cue case what is still till stranger is that in rome no church edifice has baa ever been reared to the memory of st patrick this alone is ii convincing proof that he was never recognized as a bomm missionary because all the patron mints of nations in europe have churches in rome called after them the roman authorities seeing that this incident gave historians a ground for contesting patrick patricks Is romanism turned their attention to building a church and there is one now in prow of construction I 1 patrick patricks Is system of preaching was different from the ordinary method adopted by the roman priests his plan was to establish little colonies or communities of brethren wherever the local environment favored it these communities were not knot 0 iso wed in the sense of the aval or modern mow try in it of pg he established a school of learning and theology in harmony with the industry and trade which also formed part of his system his hia special aim was to tame the stubborn ferocity of the fie fierce iiii celtic chieftains who made war on each other on the slightest pretext his hia success was singularly singular lv remarkable bede and all the early historians of the british islands agree on this point they also agree that the schools established by patrick and the missionaries produced by them were for far superior to the it is certain that a spirit of nationality and race unity was pro deuced in ireland by the patrick system when the danes and north men invaded ireland in the eighth and ninth centuries the celts belts united in driving them out the danes were firmly entrenched dublin limerick and waterford Wat erfurd were founded by danes and they were the most important cities in ireland that the roman authority did not then prevail in ireland freland is a fact wt well sustained by the bull given by adrian the ath to henry 11 II of england empowering him to subjugate ireland and reduce it to the roama faith this he henry nry did or attempted in 1172 the history of ireland from 1172 to the reformation shows that the aboriginal irish were never recognized as romanists Romanis ts wherever the anglo roman supremacy prevailed no kofod of irish birth or parentage could hold any of the church beneficed benefices benen benefi cen ces nor could any of the irish priests inherit proper property tv in the way of bequests from religious persons the laws made by the anglo romanists were even worse worm than those subsequently made by the protestants from 1704 to 1770 one law which in substance was that if a dispute occurred between an anglo roman and an irish christian Christl axi and the latter was killed in the trouble all that was ne necessary ceary was to pro prove ve at the inquest that the dead body was that of an irish christian to relieve the murderer of the charge this will illustrate the nature of the whole system after the reformation the aigid romans who would not adopt protestantism were treated they treated the christian celta up ull till this time not a word ever emanated from rome against the conduct of its agents and allies in ireland then it began to howl how and to make capital of the protestant criminal code th though ough its own penal laws a few centuries previous were worse ireland owes nothing to rome but is in indebted to her for all her troubles henry VIII of england was not a very savory personage pe nonage yet england owes to him her independence of rome much may be said against parnell but if through him independence of rome borne could be obtained he would be the henry of ireland and until ireland is ia independent of rome as well as aa england she can never be prosperous happy nor peaceful about two years ago a very learned jew the rabbi rosenthal of chicago published an article in menorah a jewish monthly on st patrick in it he be endeavored to show that the famous missionary was a converted hebrew christian he undoubtedly made some good points he showed that patricius was not derived from the roman wordin word in the case of st patrick he showed that a word existed in hebrew from which the name was derived he showed from incidents in the life of the saint that the latter was a trader by occupation but that he be had bad resided in rome for some time it to is to be regretted that learned men do not dwell a little more on the life and works of that very great and good man st patrick now the subject Is ia handled entirely by a set of ignorant irish priests who dont donit don it understand under the mother tongue of their own country who are not conversant with irish history and who travel in the stereotyped ped path wd laid out for theta them by such villainous roman of ireland as geraldus Camb rensis the roman bishop and pinkerton the lay roman historian the young men of ireland should honor st patrick but they should approach the study of his life from a purely irish standpoint st patrick built a nation independent of rome and he preached a christianity an aa foreign to rome as it was to |
