The History of Saint Patrick - a Short Story

[michealomainin]

This video is inaccurate as is the one on Che Guevara (which I see you have blocked comments on since I am sure you cant take the critisim), where do you get your info? Wikipedia? The one major thing that has to be pointed out about this video is that you said St. Patrick is a pagan when he is taking to Ireland but became catholic in Ireland. But how does he become a catholic in Ireland if there are no catholics there before him??? He is the person who brought catholicism to Ireland...

[TheCajunpenguin]

These videos are very educational and informative but it seems like you sort of put your own sin on them

[Bidmartinlo]

This sounds like a respectable priest! Oooh... the days of old seems so much better sometimes. ;)

[Sirenhound]

Do you do all of these late at night?

[jeremiahjw]

@Sirenhound Yes...mostly because I get the idea a few days before the event. I should start earlier so I don't make as many mistakes. :-P

[port9er]

I think it's wrong to assume that christianity made life better for humans. It certainly did no good for the people of Ireland, who still kill each other to this day, because of it.

[jeremiahjw]

@port9er Um, before they became Christians they were pagans and would sacrifice humans. I'd say it was at least good for future sacrifice selections.

[VampGirlxXx1]

@jeremiahjw Your implying that the Christians were innocent and had no blood on their hands. What do you call the Crusades then?

[TheCajunpenguin]

@port9er WRONG. I'm s sick of naive people saying it's religion that caused The Troubles. The IRA would quite happily have all religions living together provided it was a united Ireland

[GreatCraicPaddy]

Love Ireland? Check out @GreatCraicPaddy

Let us Know what you think thanks! :D

A Cheeky Character for all!!

[FingerMyFinger]

riiiiiiiight.. it was suicide

[yetidude13]

i love this Video, ima catholic, and it's nice to hear the story again. :D

[1916dan1798]

So he was born in ad 35 and died in ad 450... Accurate stuff especially considering Ireland became catholic in the 700's :D

[Aunicul]

@1916dan1798 turn annotations on

[KevCahir]

not a very accurate video... 

[elporteroful]

Although I completely disagree with you're history of Che Guevara, as a Catholic I want to thank you for clearing up the true meaning of a Catholic holiday.

[loudwolf1]

wait you said that st patricks day was celebrated by catholics originally, but saint patrick was born in AD35 but the great schism didnt take place until 1054. so they werent known as catholics they were known as christians or today as eastern orthodox christians.

[elporteroful]

@loudwolf1 That is still the Catholic Church. Just because the name is different doesn't mean the whole idea is different.

[loudwolf1]

@elporteroful no no, The Orthodox Church is not the Catholic Church not by the name or the idea, but by how it is run. i saw in your other comment "clearing up the true meaning of a Catholic holiday", a lot of Saints don't just pertain to the Roman Catholic Church or the Eastern Orthodox Church it depends really but in Saint Patrick's day case it is a Feast Day celebrated by most churches so you cant just call it a "Catholic holiday", Christian Holiday would be better.

[elporteroful]

@loudwolf1 It is a Catholic holiday because it is establish by the Catholic Church. The Roman Apostolic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, all those other church are still part of the Catholic Church. The only difference between these churches are the traditions. The holiday was established by the Catholic Church, so yes it is a Catholic holiday.

[elporteroful]

@elporteroful Catholics are Christians too, so I guess you could call it a Christian holiday too.

[loudwolf1]

@elporteroful OMG i dont know if u are trolling me or what ever but the Roman Catholic Church is separate from the the Eastern Orthodox Church(greek,antiochain russian etc...) the Roman Catholic Church is headed by the POPE and the Eastern Orthodox Churches are headed by a whole bunch of PATRIARCHS. The eastern churches hav different traditions the CATHOLIC church and the EASTERN church are completely separate. Ever since the Great Schism it has been this way.

[elporteroful]

@loudwolf1 First of all, I don't troll, I have no idea what that is really, but I know what I'm saying because I'm Catholic myself. Roman Catholic. The Eastern Churches still recognize the pope as the vicar of Christ. The pope I believe at one point in history did excommunicate these churches, but a few decades ago lifted that. The Eastern Churches are Catholic as well as they still pertain to the four notes or four marks: One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic. They're just as much Catholic as me.

[1JaredHendricks]

That was a very clear history. I look forward to checking out your other videos and hope you keep them coming.

[TheRedMantus2]

Quite liked your videos until the Che one

[elporteroful]

@TheRedMantus2 I agree. I love El Che!

[SpadaccinoLuciano]

@elporteroful "El Che" is so horribly wrong. Learn Spanish so you, too, can vomit at your grammar.

[elporteroful]

@SpadaccinoLuciano I'm Chicano, I speak Spanish...fluently. El Che is a nickname for Che Guevara, like El Comandante or even Che is a nickname of his.

[SpadaccinoLuciano]

@elporteroful Yeah, I know Che is a nickname, but "El Che" is a gringo hipster thing. My name is Vito, but you wouldn't all me "El Vito".

[elporteroful]

@SpadaccinoLuciano The Sandinistas of the FSLN, a revolutionary group in NIcaragua also called him El Che. It's like they're saying THE Che, like the one and only. It's out of respect to him. El Che is another one of his nicknames.

[Bebopopotamus]

400+ years old?

I don't know if I can trust any of the facts in this video if he can't even check dates.

[elporteroful]

@Bebopopotamus Why don't you look it up and show us the correct date?

[ambiguousheather]

Britain didn't exist at that time. Neither did Ireland..... They were heavily divided. Your history is kinda flawed mate.

[PyroX792]

By dedicated his life to "helping the Irish" you mean pushing a foreign, dogmatic and divisive religion onto the Irish people, destroying their native culture, which has caused nothing but war and hatred to fester in the country still to this day?

[jeremiahjw]

@PyroX792 He wasn't pushing anything on them, in fact, they tried to drive him out several times. Their "native culture" practiced ritualistic killing of humans.

[PyroX792]

@jeremiahjw still got a lot on catholicism

[megabrout]

@jeremiahjw

that's just a myth that even caesar used in his 'de bello gallico', just for anti-propoganda.

[jeremiahjw]

@megabrout There is archaeological evidence of human sacrifices.

[megabrout]

@jeremiahjw

yes but not wide spread, and there just weren't enough evidence to assume they really practiced humen sacrifising.

[megabrout]

@jeremiahjw

yes, but not enough to sustain the theory completely that celts ould have sacrificed humans.

[SiliconBong]

There is archaeological evidence of nuclear weapons, jeremiahjw.

[VampGirlxXx1]

@jeremiahjw Actually, ritualistic killings and other types of sacrafices were practiced with many different cultures at the time, not just Druids. Many times the Druids sacraficed people who volunteered.

[TheFarmersFarmington]

@PyroX792 Every religion is dogmatic and most have a history of being divisive or violent

[SiliconBong]

What about BaHai, TheFarmersFarmington>? Or pastafarinism?

[TheFarmersFarmington]

@SiliconBong they'll get there

[SiliconBong]

You're Beautiful, TheFarmersFarmington, Have a nice day :) from NZ

[jfawad]

So... Born 35 AD and Died 461 AD ?!?!?!

[yoro532]

Good video but st. Patrick was from wales!

I would know im irish

[cpmachado]

I love your history videos! So bad-ass! Keep on keeping on! :)

[dudeman55555]

These are really cool dude! Keep up the good work!  The Che one is great!

[KnockoffNigeI]

Regarding the fossil snakes, I do believe they have never been any snake fossils discovered in the entire British Isles yet there are plenty of snakes in England. So you can't cite the absence of Fossils in Ireland to argue against the snake purging legend.

[jeremiahjw]

@KnockoffNigeI The legend said he drove them out of Ireland, not England.

[KnockoffNigeI]

@jeremiahjw Are you thick?

[jeremiahjw]

@KnockoffNigeI After re-reading your comment I see what you were saying.

[brain4breakfast]

@KnockoffNigeI It takes longer than a thousand-odd years for something to fossilise. You'd just find bones.

[KnockoffNigeI]

@brain4breakfast I know IQ's are crashing fast but this kind of dumbness just does my head in. Look, watch the video, then read my comment. If it the penny still hasn't dropped find someone who can tie their own shoelaces to watch and read and explain it to you.

[kevtarsmith]

Maewyn has a wonderful ring to it. It's Welsh! Another example of the Welsh being marginalized.

[djsvideodiarys]

im irish



[Parqit]

Funny thing about the video is the body he "raises from the dead" is the head of Niccolò Machiavelli, who wasn't born until.... 500 years after Patrick.

[jeremiahjw]

@Parqit LOL, I was wondering if anyone would notice that. I had to find old paintings that did not have a copyright on them anymore to get heads for the other characters.

[chuchoi05]

Am I interpreting this right? He was born in AD 35 and died in AD 461? That would make him over 400 years old?

[witchtelus]

Video fails to mention all the people he murdered while "converting" the Irish people to Christianity. It's easy for Christianity to conveniently forget their bloody history, and that Christianity was spread more by the sword than by the word.

[jeremiahjw]

@witchtelus He didn't murder anyone. If there was any murdering, it was done by the Irish Druids for their human sacrifices.

[witchtelus]

@jeremiahjw Yes how convenient that you've accepted the whitewash of the Church. History tells us a very different story, however, as does Patricks own writing where he revels in the slaughter of pagans at his own hand.

Remember who writes the story after the conquest.

And ask yourself how the church managed to "convert" Ireland so quickly. If you have the courage to be honest about it.

[jeremiahjw]

@witchtelus I'm not whitewashing the CATHOLIC church, there have been many horrible things they have done through history. I'm just saying that Saint Patrick is one of the positive things that has come from it. There isn't any documentation that Saint Patrick ever killed anyone, even in self defense.

The church was a minority in Ireland. Patrick was arrested a few times by the Druids, there weren't enough people to fight the Druids, they would have all been killed.

[fight779]

and to think. we now celebrate a saint by getting shit faced drunk

[leokimvideo]

very interesting, powered by off tube sites

[Kevsonkip]

I heard he invented the rainbow so he always knew where his pot of gold was...

[SuperTanner69]

How did he help the Irish? By telling them their religion was wrong?

[jeremiahjw]

@SuperTanner69 They preformed human sacrifices, which, I'd hope you think were wrong. It was common for catholicism to absorb the current culture's practices, sans the ones that involved killing people.

[SuperTanner69]

@jeremiahjw Catholics were not against killing people. Pick a new argument.

[jeremiahjw]

@SuperTanner69 Red herring, the Druids preformed human sacrifices, the Catholic church didn't. There were cases where they would "kill or convert", but that more centralized, and in certain time periods, not the case in Ireland with St. Patrick.

FWI I'm not Catholic.

[SuperTanner69]

@jeremiahjw

I figured you weren't. I am well aware of the human sacrifices, but honestly, who is to say they are wrong? Note, St Patrick probably did a good thing, but I just can't take it seriously knowing what will eventually happen to the Irish. That is all i'm saying.

Also I'm not Irish = )

[scar9000]

Haha, I was going to say.. he lived for over 400 years ?! :P

[calfust129]

sweet job ill use this for conformation

[jeremiahjw]

@calfust129 Awesome!

[nccsa186]

Cute, but you could work on his history. You say Patrick was born AD 35 (three seconds in) and died 3/17/461, which would make him 426 or thereabouts. I doubt he lasted quite that long.

[OldSchoolMusic101]

please do a tutorial on this. btw it looks A W E S O M E !!!!

[Paddygormz1991]

No one really knows when St. Patrick was born or died. Many dates have been thrown around.

[francogooner]

what did St. Patrick say when he was driving the snakes out of Ireland?........

....Are yez all right in the back there?

[TangyTangoJuice]

what did u use to make this?

[jeremiahjw]

@TangyTangoJuice After Effects and Photoshop

[Pottan23]

So...St Patrick died at the tender age of 400?

[jasonthebarbarian]

Great video... and one of those rare documentaries about something Catholic which doesn't quickly resort to hate! Nicely done. :)

[libertycaps666]

nice one lad im irish and i even learnt some things lol

[ronladbreenio]

i knew all of that.. guess its cuz im irish..

[micktunes100]

2:47 thats not a clover thats a shamrock thats the main thing people get mixed up about he used the shamrock 4 the father and the son and the holy spirit just thought u should no

[fraserob]

You have him born in 35AD and died in 461AD, meaning he lived for more than 400 years. I wonder how many other "facts" you got wrong.

[MrBrionman]

did you now he is also the patron saint of new york too

[gilbet]

And his name originates from the Greek warrior Patroclus. From that we get father (pater>vater>fader>father), patron, and pattern.

[MeusOrsa]

So it didn't mean you need to chug a bucket down your throat.

[Mineretta2012]

Those stick figures are cool. Thanks for the story about Saint Patrick.

[deadfingerboarder]

go jesus!

[leokimvideo]

wow these are popular, having little mistakes in a video really help!

we are all human and that works both ways

i hear a voice in my sleep as well, it says make videos for kids on the tube!

[nypolak]

born 387 AD not 35 AD

[gatemarzipan]

@nypolak That makes a heck of a lot more sense. I was a wee bit confused. :P

[taofledermaus]

Awesome job Jeremiah!

[jeremiahjw]

@taofledermaus Thanks :-)

[jimmy]

this is super well done! nice job dude! :)

[jeremiahjw]

@jimmy Thanks man!

[ilikeantea]

Ireland has druids?

[DesvattnetsFurste]

@ilikeantea Well, not anymore thanks to that Patrick bastard.

[ikedabarry]

Born: AD35

Died: AD461

426 years old?

[ikedabarry]

So he died at the ripe age of 426?

[zoics1]

Did he drink Green Beer???

[DigitomProductions]

He definitely murdered that slave master and lit his house on fire.

[Strideo1]

@DigitomProductions If so then that would be badass.

[undisputed4life]

@DigitomProductions That's how he rolls. lol.

[curry136]

he wasn't an alcoholic?

[FUNNYCRAPFROMHELL798]

Im confused wheres the part where everyones gets drunk and partys all day?

[teribern]

How did you do this????? I'm in awe. You could teach St. Jeff Borden a thing or two...

[camaleon2040]

o.0

[FireKnife360]

0:28

1.Raiders

2.Marauders

choose one

[j815wilkinson]

Wooot Christian Bishops! Let's get drunk!

[Xeoncross]

Awesome video, it's nice to hear the real stories of people like this that spent their lives doing things like starting schools and churches to help the poor.

[wolfzalin]

If by helping and teaching the Irish, you mean destroying their culture. "Patrick" was very much a "must covert the heathens!" kind of guy.

St. Patrick's day is really very anti-Irish, being that most of the current traditions were created in the United States rather than Ireland itself.

[mrppotts]

Great Video! but... Upsetted? :(

[jeremiahjw]

@mrppotts The whole audio recording didn't come out as well as I wish. Not sure why...I did a number of takes. Oh well.

[sam22ish]

@jeremiahjw he was from wales

[Jenelleyizzle]

cute

[booyaka3]

That was pretty good! Keep up the great work.. I'm glad I stumbled upon your channel. :)

[mrtrick83]

1:05 "upsetted" the Celtic druids? Hmmm

[Rekedens]

Well made, sir! :D

[xJolie101]

Thanks :D

[kiwanotree]

He was Welsh. That means he was also British, but the country he was from is Wales.

[heuykiller]

You never mentioned BOOZE?

[imthatbandnerd]

raising machiavelli from the dead? bahhhh!

[cannonfodder9]

It should probably be noted that saint Patrick himself hated alcohol, and wanted it banished. Which just makes celebrating saint Patrick's day now really odd. But a great video nonetheless!

[jackfrostbyte02]

I hate to nit-pick because this was very entertaining, but at the very start of the video you say Saint Patrick was born around 35ce, and died in 461ce. This struck me as odd as that would make St. Patrick over 400 years old and preaching in a time when Christianity was not widespread. I did a quick search and found the correct date of birth as somewhere around 387ce. (Wikipedia, source: Catholic Encyclopaedia.)

Hate to bust Balls. Happy St. Patty's :)

[jeremiahjw]

@jackfrostbyte02 Aww man...that's what I get for staying up late and doing a video. Oh well.

[greenpunkergirl]

Thinking another reason they may have changed his color from blue to green because of the Virgin Mary. She sorta out ranks him. So the color choice was obviously green.

[ZackLawrenceShow]

Well done!

[CognosSquare]

At 0:30 you say "maraiders". Thats a good word. "marauders" a "raiders" into one foul entity.

[boojwahz]

great video man

[7staff]

very helpful thank you

[DonataII]

I really enjoyed watching this! Thanks for all the hard work you put into it - it's very nicely done. ^_^

[jeremiahjw]

@DonataII Awww thanks, that means a lot. I'm currently in a daze, having had no sleep in over 24 hours, and I'm glad that someone enjoyed it. :-)

[MrDogbiscut]

thanks... im from England and never actually knew any of that.. least u got 1 view & like lol.. :D

[jeremiahjw]

@MrDogbiscut Haha!