Show A 10 F DOW I 1 all 1 I X tr MEAN an s 9 M V I 1 CARL t ILI k Z 14 0 J W evil IR 4 ISLAND AND ITS PATRON SAINT ALIKE IMMORTAL on the famous green isle the seed planted by st patrick in the century his grown into a plant that cannot bo chronicles I 1 AND LEGENDS OF IRELAND by NEIL MACDONALD st patrick in the annals of owes a n measure C V ot of its fame to the annals written in gaelic and ani of 0 very great antiquity the tile earlier portion of the history Is undoubtedly largely my thlen and even eien in thu tho more modern part fable and fact ire ro so 8 interlaced ter laced that it Is extremely to attain certainty it claims to be a of events s from the tho down of humanity down doun to 1408 when the record closed according to the old chroniclers nil ill the benthen kings who ho reigned relived in ircy land until the time of st Vat patrick numbered W ja 3 they trace the tile origin of lin lie anelle on pile people anterior to tho the time of noah and write of clenta beyond 1 the ranee range of human buman knowledge with nil all the assurance of undoubting certainty r much Is written about st hotrick pp trick in the annale annals but here again the miraculous and improbable are to commIn gleo with reallie that it Is hard to determine what Is truth annj elat ie Is fiction I 1 translate a portion of it bierin bin rin upon the life of st Pa patrick IrIck which la Is doubtless in the main correct an in ho tho fourth year of king Loor alei rs reign st patrick the apostle of ireland inland was sent over by br ot of pope Celest itte to convert the land from PaRtin lam to christianity but he did not land hero here until after tf vie death of in the tile first year of Six till his bucce successor isor in the year A 0 D 42 Ard machu WBK wait edified and made the metropolitan eee see of ireland by bi st fit pat pal rick borne sonia writer writers say that st janie james the ali anotle came to this land others other bay that ln was tent here hem before st patrick but he had not slot much success for he converted to the faith but five parishes only alch wen were in leinster and es as he tie was returning re to he died in in the annals frequent manttan la Is made of st Ile rau who was not only the ills founder of but was allio alica the patron taint of the men of connaught the annals of align 1 the year fw as the date st kieran a birth and n AS that of his 1113 death so great was bis his reputation for sanctity that in that tha I 1 part of or ireland even eten now couple tits hi nn name inv with deity ihen they wish hi to cire give n alil ld 11 inal fore for e to an is P ft concerning freedom of land from snakes IN freedom of ireland re lanil fron TUB Teres snakes and other lu 4 creatures tures was n inart i liy tur from a very curly early ich tal popoli opinion ry of ireland iraq a lie irve 6 I 1 1 Is to st patrick for the i demotion demp tion ahw merit Is aali attributed to the mint saint nat only hy by the un educated educato but also by eeme game of choto aho who atan in the 11 of inoval and 1 intellectual gullies of the people in anceline celine a nione of curnew a w writer riter of the tte twelfth tv wan wa arst t to give currency to this reviled of st dalrick trick the old ii thrim icier leler brints A the bawn pon tol nf fit I 1 ent enl appi bathed si st with ire into a ehla bagh manni aln on iho ati colem clit litt nf of Conna tight too bv tw at leawn for enil and lie fur for 40 ikas ilg ajr after blit cath cf tH nf nt fast ing lias completed to this place he gathered together the tribes of and venomous enola oui creature creatures and druc dru c them headlong into the western ocean fredi fro a hence hath proceeded the tile exemption ireland enjoys from all rol pl onoda bonous reptiles reptile i 11 solanus Soll nus nho ito wrote rote a few hundred tars before st patrick arrived in irland make makes mention of the fact of ireland irelands s freedom from alt all venomous venomous creature creatures hut but assigns no cauce for the exemption the ride in alio eighth century notices he the same fact but says nothing of st patrick to in this connection donat bishop of Fi fibulae FIs ulac near florence who lived in the seventh century wrote a latin poem describing his na tire country ireland in which he refer fers to the absence of froni from the land and fros from the lak laap of this favored isle tale A translation of the poem Is subjoined sub joined par far westward ilea leg jn an lel me of oi nent fame iame by grature blessed 1 ani and scoda Is 1 her name enrolled in book books exhaustless to 1 her tor ator of liver silver mid and 0 sv go sea den ore iter t oil io to o eer tr temi teems with wealth wit with trems hr her water waters and her air with health her verdant ven lint field lielas with milk and hony honey low flow fleece fleeces tit with virgin now snow iter waving furrow furrows float witt tt bearded born and arm arms and arta her envied son on adorn adom no avace savage bear with sa fury urr roes ro no ravenous lion through her pace pea cerul ful groves no polion there her infects no scaly r alke ke creep the crass nor frug annoy the lake lako an island orthy of it tan plou race in war triumphant ind and in peace thir enthusiastic expatriated arih taint saint of the seventh century the e abbie noted as lianna the many bleg blessings sIngs enjoyed by the highly fiti ored itic isle hod had donat be lieveld that st patrick had been the acta act a agent in securing this tits tea bon to ireland Ire lind it Is improbable that lie he would n neglect albect to state the fact in his st patrick lay lays no claim to miraculous power of any ny kind unless it be as the instrument 2 of allne crace grace in the conversion 1 and of inners sinners whereby thet th beenke the children of god gott it Is t known that there as any other au thorley for the he story of st 81 patrick patricks banishing the snakes but copyright lots wr poper udla union y N az should oe be united in honor sharing st patricks inbok nn an I 1 his crave grave why has ha the once loti loved d and honored little irish nun saint bridget 1 been comparatively forgotten she wn among the first to he the fall falth prachan hn by patrick and pealed faith to work works by toy her tier life to abe be cloister the first of her race po to do so go united in lal nod in I bor for frit were alie e tv it f lw file v aka of wn ikall alow mv 1 t or I 1 liw r T sw attl ollist ow 1 leg 4 wv |