The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick: Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick: Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
Patrick, Saint, 373?-463?
4. After three months he went to Aremorica with his parents,
and was taken by the Picts two months into captivity. He
was taken captive a third time, and taken to Bordeaux,
where he was set at liberty, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
5. Passing thence to Tours, he became a monk in the Monastery
of St. Martin, and after four years of monastic life
returned to the Island of Temar, which is supposed to be
the same as Ireland, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
6. St. Patrick was called by visions into Gaul, and proceeded
into Italy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
7. According to the customs of monks at that time, he spent
seven years in wanderings over mountains and through
islands, and, obeying the admonition of an angel, was
ordained priest by Bishop S. Senior, . . . . . . . . . . . 410
8. Having studied three years, St. Patrick is called by
visions into Ireland to preach the Gospel, . . . . . . . . 413
9. St. Patrick, through love of solitude, returns into
Britain to Valle Rosina, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
10. Being received at Antissiodorum by St. Amator,
A.D. 414, he remains there four years, and passes to
St. Germanus in the forty-second year of his age, . . . . . 418
11. Having spent nearly four years with St. Germanus,
St. Patrick departed for the Isle of Lerina, . . . . . . . 421
12. St. Patrick spent nine years in the Island of Lerina,
opposite Norbonne, and, knowing that the time for his
mission to Ireland was at hand, returned to Germanus
at Aries, now Orleans, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
13. Palladius returned from Ireland, his mission having
failed, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
14. St. Patrick is sent by St. Celestine in Ireland, . . . . . 432
15. Being consecrated bishop by the Bishop of Tours, he bids
farewell to St. Germanus in passing through Gaul, and,
having landed on the shore of Leinster, baptizes Sinellum
in the autumn of the same year, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
16. St. Patrick proceeds to Ulster, preaches the faith to
Milcho, and makes many converts, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
17. St. Patrick preaches to King Leary at Tara, . . . . . . . . 436
18. St. Patrick returned to Rome, and sent St. Kranie and his
five companions to preach the Gospel, . . . . . . . . . . . 445
19. St. Patrick gives St. Bridget the veil in the fourteenth
year of her age, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
20. Armagh is made a metropolitan see, and councils are
celebrated, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
21. St. Patrick again visits Rome, probably for the confirmation
of his council, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
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