The True History of St. Patrick That All Christians Should Know!

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Behind the misunderstandings and politically-motivated lies about St. Patrick, some of which are found in the mainstream media, is a truth which every Christian ought to take a closer look at for themselves! Below are a couple of sites, sharing the results of great research - specific sources are provided in those sites too! http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/patrick.html http://www.truthontheweb.org/patrick.htm Patrick was NOT a Catholic! He was a real, historical person born in 373 A.D. in Roman Britain. He brought the true Gospel of Christ to Ireland, an island untouched by the Roman legions, in or about 405 A.D., which became known as the “Isle of Saints and Scholars”. The monasteries set up by Patrick, were totally unlike the monasteries that were established under the Church of Rome. These monasteries were quite like those of the Vaudois and other early Christian churches of northern Italy and southern France, whereby men came aside for some years to be trained in the Scriptures and to learn how to evangelize and to bring the Gospel to others. For more than six hundred years, Irish missionaries carried the Gospel with the same truthfulness as Patrick’s to Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and beyond. Darkness covered Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries. The Dark Ages had begun and the Roman Church, having gained rulership through intrigue and persecution, now held most of Europe in her iron grip. Even so, in those dark centuries, the Irish missionaries continued to spread the true Gospel, seed which for centuries to come would bear much good fruit all across Europe. ` Many Irish have grown up engrossed in the rites and rituals of Roman Catholicism. Many of us, turning from those dead things and having drunk deeply of the Biblical grace of God that is in Christ Jesus, now want to stand on Patrick’s words, “No one shall be able to steal away or hide, but each one shall render account for even our smallest sins before the judgment seat of Christ.” The frightening words of the Lord ring in the ears of those who spend their lives in man-made religion, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” - Matthew 7:21. ` No person by merely acknowledging Christ through a priesthood and sacraments shall have any part with God in Him, but only the one who does the will of His Father. The Lord made the will of the Father abundantly clear when He said, “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” -John 6:29. “Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts..” - Hebrews 3:7,8. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.” - II Corinthians 5:17 “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” ---------------------------------- “St. Patrick: Apostle of Ireland” in History of the Scottish Nation by J.A. Wylie - London: Hamilton, Adams & Co. Andrew Elliot, Edinburgh 1886 - Vol. II, Ch 9. Letter to Coroticus, http://prayerfoundation.org/st_patricks_letter_to_coroticus.htm, 1/30/03, p. 2. The full text of the Papal Bull of Pope Adrian IV that empowered King Henry to conquer and subdue Christian churches to Rome: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/bullad.htm 2/1/2003. 'The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation.' - italic in the original. - Catechism of the CATHOLIC CHURH, Second ed., - United States Catholic Conference, 1997 - Paragraph 1129. The historian, J.A. Wylie goes to great lengths of demonstrate the fact that Patrick came to Ireland to evangelise in 405. Among others, he quotes Dr. Killen as saying, “It's claims to have been acknowledged by the best critics of all denominations, by Usher, Ware, Tillemont, Lanigan, and Neander. Dr. Killen thinks that Patrick arrived in Ireland immediately after the death of Nial, or Nial of the Nine Hostages, in the year 405.” From “St Patrick: Apostle of Ireland” by J.A. Wylie in History of the Scottish Nation, Vol. II, Ch. 13, endnote No. 4. Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. 4, Ch. 2, Sect. 14, “The Conversion of Ireland”. For a more complete list, see Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. 4, Ch. 2, “Conversion of Northern and Western Barbarians,” Sect. 15, “The Irish Church after St. Patrick. The Missionary Period”. ----------------------------------