Friday, 30 March 2012

Vignettes from the Lives of the Irish Saints: Saint Kevin's Vision of Saint Patrick

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On a certain night, it is related, that St. Kevin and his monks were engaged singing a hymn to St. Patrick. Suddenly, the holy Abbot re...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Saint Fiacc's Poem on the Life of Saint Patrick

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Below is a translation taken from an  Irish Ecclesiastical Record paper on Saint Fiacc's hymn on the Life of Saint Patrick. I have ...
Saturday, 17 March 2012

Vignettes from the Lives of the Irish Saints: Saint Patrick's Winding Sheet

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Hagiography portrays the male and female patrons of Ireland as having had contact with each other in life, including this story of the w...
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Lá Fhéile Pádraig - The Feast of Patrick

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Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh! It is always interesting to keep an eye on how the media report and present the feast of our national...
Friday, 16 March 2012

Ist Vespers for the Feast of Saint Patrick - Ecce fulget clarissima

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Below is the text and accompanying translation of an Irish medieval plainchant hymn for 1st Vespers from Sarum-rite Divine Office manusc...
Thursday, 15 March 2012

Saint Patrick and Saint Paul

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In the following article from the Irish Ecclesiastical Record of 1891, Father James Halpin compares the 'apostle of the Irish' wit...
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Wednesday, 14 March 2012

The Burial Place of Saint Patrick- Paper 3

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In this final paper ecclesiastical historian, Father Sylvester Malone, argues for Saul rather than Downpatrick as the burial place of Sa...
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