Show f wm f vj v aa af dt dm dull ST PATRICKS PLACE OF BIRTH LONG ot IN DISPUTE nam boston a bitter cry that from the mention of a scotch birtle wr place for st patrick ie Is not to t be tolerated the a conto controversy versy lit ar an old one aoa anti this to 1 bot a 86 for ta lInit sides to bo we me will merely 1 present the rival views to the interested it reader it would appear that like alomer more than one spot la is ra prepared to do battle for the honor of being patricks birthplace scotland SS N wales end brittany belne being ill tit contestants t k arst let our well read correspondent peak speak 1 I have rend read every author worth ia reading on the question and with wv only one desire namely to find out the truth and have no more doubt non on the question that he was born la in brittany thim I 1 have that be he wae wax a real live human being english and 91 scotch desire to appropriate every i thing nod everybody worth while la Is the cause of the error in the tho case i for wry overy lino line that can con be saad about bin his french birth one hundred vt V t aro are written ou on the british island kide but such claimants have no critical argument on stir side able it I 1 la Is all a part of 0 the so called A anglo saxon propaganda and I 1 liopo hope that when tho paper again alludes botho question it will go into tho fact cacti of 0 tho the case cuse which the scotch claim 21 anta uee r do see ken ting 0 ilan ion moore lannigan nn don phillp 0 father morris canon fleming miss cusack father 0 farrell and a host of others for the full analysis of the cne case then red the best that can bo eald said on tho the scotch side by archbishop healy read professor bury for a complete disposal dispo ial of doc I 1 N ammi Mi MM M S av AS JV jmj JV aw AAA A 0 aw aos it j a tor Il theories and then ask yourself if there la Is a shadow of the edtih claim left yet we ue are con dinned with the dogmatic assertion that st patrick as bom born in scotland on the other hand to quote from archbishop krch bishop healy ut of tuam lip 0 sullivan beare a man of let ding ming and authority declared that patrick was hem born in bretagne Jre tagne lie ile was mas the he first writer riter of note who put forward that opinion for no nr ar dent clent writer known to us its ever advanced it the difficulty has ling been to sittle where exactly Bonu bonnavent avent lae Is which Is the town patrick mentions in his confession as ills tits home believed in a french but not a breton birthplace birth doctor lierly states that his view was a modification of 0 sullivans sas that the Bonn avem lae lao ef of the confos confusion slon was the m me tov toi a BS as boulogne summer sumer in and anti was the birthplace ta ij our saint but the confession does not state that Ta bernine lae was patricks birthplace but that it was the place where his father had a villa from which he himself was mas canted off a canth e doctor healy himself states it appears to us to be nutce clear from the account the saint gives given of himself that he be wa was a native of the roman roulan province ot britain and in all probability was as born on the banks of the clde cide in scotland to turn bow to professor bury ua writes as follows in his ills st t I 1 patrick at I 1 in the absence of any tanco of u Dann Bann aventa in north british region regions we ne must I 1 think thirk rive ave delthe weight to the lenerel probabilities abill of the case and suppose that Bann aventa tle ws south of the wall of If hadrian adrian somewhere hero in western britain not far from the const consul after ills pook book was in press he received a from front professor rhya which led him to adia 1 I V atit 1 vy I ig v j 5 jw q 1 ja 7 1 VS to his preface as follows 1 I had conjectured that it should V be sought near the severn or the 4 bristol channel the existence of of three place places named balwen which 0 4 may represent Bann aventa in glav morgan shire opens a prospect that rn the solution may possibly lie ile there the reader Is n v in possession ot of ft the names of the chief authorities modern and ancient on the subject and he may weigh 0 sullivan ando nn djA lanigan against doctor healy and cardinal horan moran or colgan and anda Ona herty against keating and andr I 1 Oll anlon aulon arhe or he may weigh probes prof es aft 1 sor bury and sir john illys against V tn them all IN whatever the merits of ofu afu ft the question it cannot be a dogmatic V i assertion on oil either side but een ee aft P if st patrick had been bom born in ahat Is now called scotland or britain gt 40 in neither case could it be claimed that he was u what hat Is to meant by either of the modern terms scotchman or anglo saxon the word nord scopus ot in those t 0 5 e days meant irishman aa pure and simple and aa was only given to scotland on ing to the irish colonies colo lea AA which undertook civilizing forkl on her west coast argyle means liter to ally the land of tbell the V irish As for the anglo saxon that peculiar breed had not yet left the german fortsas ts ahen they theote came to britain they drove the brit v 1 I ish cults cf its westward but eventually 4 adopted their name of briton icv it v Is safe to describe st patrick as a celt whether he uns wasa born in irish scotland celtic brit a aln or in un franked gaul caul whir 1 ever bis his upbringing he camy came in laj touch and understanding with both the roman boman idea and anti Ca eldom ile a I 1 was the first to realize what abut a spar trual combination they were likely S ta 0 nake make history Ill story has justified Justl fled his a experiment for boduy there are more bl hops in the itoman church 04 of gaelic blood than of any othera other branch of the human family From the magazine ireland V VW 4 aass m 0 4 V vi |