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Bure It brtchtena up the day!
Drab the world would be. and duller.
But tor good St. Patrick's day!
Who ta ha who would ba »cornin’
When the »bamrvck »miles at him.
With this aood St Patrick’» mornin’
Full of kindness to the brtmt
THE OLDEST NATION
RELAND is the oldest European
nation. The lia flail, or stone of
fate, was believed to be identical
with the stone on which Jacob laid
his head. The Tua t ha de Danann
brought It to Ireland by way of Nor
way. They were called the Tribe of
God and were looked upon as super
human because of their great attain
ments in artistic and scientificfpur-
sults. “All who are skilled in the use
of musical instruments; those who are
gifted In the arts of divination and
enchantment—such are the sons of the
descendants of the Tuatha de Danann."
About 300 or -KYI years later another
tribe from the same stock and called
Gania came from Egypt by way of
Spain to Ireland. Their queen was
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ST. PATRICK’S LIFE
Early Days Obscure, But
Glorious Deeds Will
Live Forever.
an
Irishman
makes his home, there an
altar to St Patrick Is estab
lished. and on
seventeenth
the
of
March a trail of green enriches the
globe. The shamrock from the old sod
reaches faraway places and decorates
thousands of gallant Irishmen who
by the symbol proclaim their devotion
to St. Patrick. This year, owing to
the war and the uncertainty of the fu
ture, the celebrations are somewhat
saddened.
Historians tell us with unfailing zest
that St. Patrick was bom of pious ano
Godfearing parents in the year 372
of the Christian era. The little that
Is known of his youth has been sadly
garbled by chroniclers who. being am
bitious to produce something new.
seem to have forged some points of
the history. Of these chroniclers some
Old Monastic Ruin.
are, no doubt, correct, but which? On
named Scotia and when she separated this account some painstaking writer
from the king her followers were has given us the facts as far as truly
called Scots. At first they gave the known, and with these we must be
name of Scotland to Ireland and it content.
In 387 he was sold as a alare to a
was so described for many centuries.
They and the Picts colonized north chieftain of Ulster. To the youthful
Britain and gave the name Scotland to slave Ireland seemed Godforsaken and
IL The Picts came to Ireland shortly overrun by fiends of evil power. There
after the landing of the Gaels. These was no church, no sacraments. He
Gaels had lost a great many men in could find no priest nor any one who
a stormy voyage from Spain and the paid any attention to religion. He
widows were married to the Picts, who was “alone among scoffers and the wor
shipers of graven images.”
had no women with them.
Hfs life of prayer and self-sacrifice
Tara's Halls continued to be the seat
of government down till the Christian continued during the long years of his
era, when it fell into disuse because term of slavery, which were three.
of a curse that was placed upon it by Finally freed from his bondage he en
tered the priesthood as he had so long
St Bredan.
desired. After he had finished bls
studies, he was ordained and the zeal
of hfs soul became a conflagration. As
many devout souls have prayed to do,
he wished to convert the whole worid.
and as all desire, he prayed pathet
ically to wear the martyr’s crown.
France knew of him and there he la
bored for a time, as he did in Italy
and the Thyrrhenlon sea Islands. But
it was to Ireland his heart turned
most eagerly and he was permitted a
vision in which he saw the people of
Erin stretch forth their arms to him
in supplication, and this vision deter
mined him to undertake the difficult
task of the conversion of Ireland. He
traveled to Rome to get the permis
sion of the pope and submitted his la
bor and himself to that high dignitary.
He was consecrated bishop and. hav
ing received his Instructions and hav
Ireland's Harp.
ing been blessed, he began his Jour
Since time out of mind it has been ney to his new mission.
the custom to associate the harp with
The Inhabitants of Erin were con
Irish music, perhaps because the harp
is the etublem upon the flag of Ire sidered in an advanced state of civ
land, or perhaps because “the harp that ilization, and St. Patrick began his la
once through Tara a .hails its soul of bors by denouncing Druldlsr^, aston
music shed" has echoed through the ishing its followers by the wonderful
succeeding ages, stirring the imagina deeds he accomplished In the name or
tion to vision of past glories. At all God, and little by little they believed
and accepted the mysteries of the
events, in spite of the fact that the
true religion. He explained to them
origin of the harp antedates the earli
the mysteries of the Trinity by pick
est records of civilization and that ing from the sod a shamrock and dis
now the harp has bseoass almost ex coursing on its trefoil leaf on one
tinct in Ireland. It seems probable that stem; then on the crucifix he bx -
the historic association will penisL
herever
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plained the birth of the Christ and the
purpose of his death and the begin
ning of the church. The religious fer
vor of St. Patrick appealed to the
warm hearts of his listeners and hla
■ a confla-
„-------- God's churches arose out of
Druidical ruins and the houses of the
Druids became monasteries. Bearing
aloft the banner of his Master, St. Pat
rick's travels over Erin were tri
umphantly successful.
It is not given to many workers to
see the fruits of their labors, but un
der St. Patrick's teaching. In his life,
Ireland became known as the Island
of Saints. He lived to be one hun
dred and twenty years old. Another
saint of Ireland said of him: “A just
man with a purity of nature like a
patriarch’s; a true pilgrim like Abra
ham ; gentle and forgiving like Moses
a praiseworthy psalmist like David
SPICKS
Pilgrims at 8L Patrick's Cross, Saint's
Island, Lough Derg.
in wisdom like Solomon; a chosen
vessel of God like the Apostle Paul,
and full of grace and knowledge like
John, the beloved disciple of CbrlsL”
8t. Patrick's Day.
March 17th is celebrated by Irish
men of all creeds and denominations
ns the birthday of their patron saint,
Patrick. There is a story that ones
there was a dispute between two fac
tions, one claiming that the patron
saint was bom on the eighth, the other
that he came to this world on the ninth
of March. As the quarrel could not
otherwise be settled, the 17th was de
cided on by the simple compromise of
nddlng eight and nine together. But
there appears bo be no reason for
doubting that St. Patrick was born ei
ther at Kirkpatrick (or Dumbarton)
in Scotland, or perhaps In France, In
the latter part of the fourth century,
on the day usually kept as bls birthday.
St. Patrick’s day is purely a national
celebration Irrespective of any relig
ious belief.
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