Show 0 I 1 ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL AT DUBLIN MANY LEGENDS OF ST PATRICK picturesque variety of incidents crowded into life of the great apostle EXP exposition OF THE TR TRINITY anity something thai that the bands could uti uro deratany dera tand gif his ridding arefa ireland of d la Is of course me mora or less lee mythical tradition has sin round P popular oil cd the ute at 0 st patrick whose if i at all loyal irish cele celebrate dusto wl with th a n more picturesque variety of incidents than line has be been the tat fate of any at other h or saint NI Mit Other ther they or are true or not la Is a matter of little imbor tance if the stories ore good they have t to u be good for fop the die irish are the authors tb s oae 0 of the mot it famous of tile the maths 1 ah connected with SL si patrick perhaps t the most famous after the traditional expulsion of snakes ask from ireland la in thuston the story Y of how the saint became c con n necked with till the sha shamro k when st P t lg first beim n to tat wit talk to the heathen heathe the irle of the T trinity they did not helium believe him till he picked a shamrock and illustrated the tha doctrine by three there leabes growing on one stem Thi semi concrete analogy appealed to the druids druies and molt of them became Chrls christians this these druid were st patrick a worst ire I 1 me enemies 1 I and ad he was forced by th ir hostility to bet in a januar somewhat inappropriate for a saint 11 he earned cursed their leads lands for them so BO t that hut they bar became waada and ad time drear bogs binni he curbed oil their rivers so that no fish could live in them he ha cursed their halt kettles so that they would not boll boil aud and foully finally he cursed the earth so go that it opened and swallowed them up his HI most famous act th the saints saint omit most famous achievement cut we was tile the riddling ridding ireland of snakes tho method he be employed played vaa novel at at least ile he simply called all 11 the serpents together to the top of a moun 1 tilo tila and compelled them to swallow each other until drift there was none left but as the said that seems evem A more authentic account 1 iq the that t he it drove tile amialea lee out by holding beating a drum and that in n sla his he knocked a hot hole 1 la it an a angll at once a mum came and ad mended ended on one huge big ianvale anau he if 11 said baid to have chained in longa dilleen and even to this dav emr every M monday morning th the snake calls out in good irish its ita a long monday perikl st patrick seems to have talmie a great cat delight in performing Der forming mt miracles a Is a once ree all nhan he be a aas 1 in england lie be an aw a leper vim ho wanted to make a voyage yge 1 la a 0 certain cartel ship but the captain would old 11 not t let hind him st patrick took a loan altar tat which had been consecrated by the pope and ad throw threw it let into the water or he ere then made do the leper top st oa the altar which floated and kept up with the ship tor far the voyage put pat C crosa over right grave ile ha had bad a habit ot 0 setting a cross at the grave of a christian whenever he could in hla his travels one day he came upon two newly made beaves at the lead head ot of one of was less a cros st patric Patri cli stopped and ad asked kid the man in this grave what hla his religion was ile ahe man replied he be was a pagan why the then la in till alila er croo placed at your head st patrick asked tit tile replied that his lil companion had b become acome a christian and that a mistake bad her been made ad 1 in plating tte the cre cross st patrick then corrected the error and went wf III way but eve even st BE patrick made ad 1 andi alke he was once onca fl add to tat meat at when it was not proper to do IQ BO ile ha got some pork but bit hid it for a time tima and nd before he found BO an opportunity to eat it it he we gift a roan with pair dole of ey eyes 1 in the ibe back of hla his head to in addition to the usual man in trout st patrick asked the meaning of at tilts tills and aid the man ro rc that with the anres la in hla bs ram face he eliod as buia things sit as other men inea baw dra but frith those in the a be bade ck or of hla big head he saw new secret thin things a aaa ad b he now a saw a monk oak hith hiding go bonie fresh meat cut that he bt might kz eat cut it ft secretly st patrick was at t one once bricke with tor remorse torrone rove and ad preyed prayed tor for forgive forgiveness nese As an angel then thed appeared aad commands com mandeS alia to put the 11 pork into water r athla s be a ld an and it was immediately changed tat into fishes asive ml hla memory W worshiped duped so such h tell taua a ai these then are a told of by the irish thour themselves selme with no an hint blot of di disrespect they are merely test the evidences ld de rices of the 11 pervading humor himen 01 ot this light hearted people and ad all should mild he be taken in the same spirit by 10 others comet mi in spite salta at them the irish a worship a III in the memory 5 of st bt patrick above all a other saints estate it should not be imagined however that the traditions concerning the pa true tron saint at ot of beland I amid are all humorous humo lame roua orona some of then them embody that case of tile the beautiful alch Is 1 also ian irish char actor act lat one of the moat t attractive ot of these talea la Is that ot of st SL pair patrick 1 I c ii and ad the king dough daughters ter in the year he fie celebrated easter by converting many thoum nd ot at the after the tere termination ot of matig the if he went e t to 0 T tara in to try y to hie convert the ling 9 B but u t the h king would A I 1 I 1 I 1 interior of st patricks patrick have none an of the new religion on and st bt patrick a life we was 1 in darge danger r IS iff d de he be us n is departing from III the e town a wn when he pulsed passed a fountain near which were two twit fair maidens aid th the maidens ull full or of wonder at st patric white bit garment I 1 baked ked him who he we wag brought king into fold st patrick told tile them he we wag n a bah op p 0 1 l god cod and ad expounded the pei pran cip caplea on of it christianity they were de lighted with his suit aud became converted id at once then 11 on they asked st 11 to rotor return to tara where their father was an king hild st patrick surprised to hear ul that at ties the two maidens idea we were daughters daughter of the king he had visited panted them back to tile the castle hore the ling king wai wa p pers persad ed cd by the 11 fain cea ce a to accept the no new religion I 1 ehe be next day 1 of tile people followed the example of their kimg boil prin forays |