Trias Thaumaturga

The Three Wonderworking Patrons of Ireland

Tuesday, 24 March 2026

The Real Saint Patrick: 'an intensely loveable character'

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  We close the octave of posts on Saint Patrick's Confession by leaving the last word to Father Francis Shaw SJ. In the stirring quote b...
Monday, 23 March 2026

Saint Patrick in His "Confession"

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   Today we examine the views of Irish writer Alice Curtayne  (1901–81) on the Confession of Saint Patrick. In 1931 the Anthonian Press publ...
Sunday, 22 March 2026

THE CONFESSION OF ST. PATRICK

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     'The Confession of Saint Patrick' is an article from an Australian Catholic news magazine published in 1937. The anonymous auth...
Saturday, 21 March 2026

Discovering the Real Saint Patrick through his Confession

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  Last month the blog featured the work of Irish writer Alice Curtayne on Saint Brigid. Today we can look at the work of one of her contempo...
Friday, 20 March 2026

What is a Confessio?

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Yesterday Sister Máire B. de Paor reminded us of the unique privilege we have as Irish people in having Saint Patrick's  Confessio in w...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

Treasuring the Writings of our Father in the Faith

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In yesterday's post we were reminded of Saint Patrick's unique status as a documented saint of fifth-century Britain and Ireland. Th...
Wednesday, 18 March 2026

Saint Patrick: The Documented Saint

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Today we begin a series of posts exploring some opinions, old and new, about Saint Patrick's Confession. I have often thought that we ...
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Marcella
I am an Irishwoman interested in the lives of our native saints and martyrs. I am not a professional scholar in this field but attempt to keep up with the work of those who are. I am particularly interested in the many obscure Irish saints whose names fill the pages of our Martyrologies.
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