Patrick of Ireland of Peace

Patrick of Ireland of Peace

From heads of enemies hanging from waists

to books they had copied hanging from waists--

Patrick.

Blessed are the peacemakers

He lived from A. D. 387-A. D. 460 (or 492).

Patrick had been a slave/shepherd. He escaped. He became missionary to Ireland.  He taught them to read by using books telling of red martyrdom. Red martyrdom was dying/being killed for the faith.

Ireland had no cities, and warrior chiefs wore the skulls of enemies from their waists.

Green martyrdom was started.  A person would move to an isolated hut, to live with God.

Later, others moved to live around these first ones.These groups became monasteries and cities. [Again, Cahill says that Ireland had had no cities].

They began copying books.  This was white martyrdom.

--Slavery? Page 148: ‘… Ireland…had been received into Christianity, which transformed Ireland into Something New, something never seen before—a Christian culture, where slavery and human sacrifice became unthinkable… ‘--

Roman civilization fell, and the books the Irish copied were among the few, if any, [Latin] books that survived. Later, missionaries came from Ireland to set up monasteries and scriptoria, places where books were copied.

Cahill explains it well. ‘How The Irish Saved Civilization,’ page 196.

‘… Wherever they went [these missionaries: CHH] the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies’ heads. Wherever they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they established literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe.

     And that is how the Irish saved civilization. …’

From heads of enemies hanging from waists

to books they had copied hanging from waists--

Patrick.

Blessed are the peacemakers

What do you want to hang from YOUR waist?