Saint Patrick bio (with slideshow)

Saint Patrick, missionary and Christian hero (presented by Gary Hicks at Brook Hill UMC, Frederick, MD, 2008)

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[caedmullen]

This is an interesting and tragic story, "myheroforever". Thanks for sharing it!

[myheroforever]

Unfortunately, the team met a buddist in the middle and turned south to India and brought back Buddism. After ten years or more, the king found that Buddism was not telling him of the God he saw in the dream, he banned Buddism from preaching in China for hundreds of years. However, Chinese could not hear the true Gospel until 19th century.

[myheroforever]

Ireland is blessed for getting the gospel early and for sending out missionaries to the world. China is cursed for getting Buddism after a king in Han Dynasty (around 100AD) had a dream of a God of shining face in bright white clothes flying in the palace and smiling at him. The God pointed him to the West. The king sent a team travelling to the west to get the knowledge of God. At that time, the Silk Path was established and the team could reach Jerusalem if it kept travelling west.

[MATTSHONDRICK]

correct saint paul was a great influence on patricks missionary work in a sister city.

[jimsim3]

you see at first the welsh found an answer to the roman invision in Christianity, if you think about it ,good reason to send out missionary. if we all believe the same we stand as one. but then they romans lift. but patrick mission contue to work and in a unlikely way. hance the Irish Missionaries.

[jimsim3]

After the fall of the Roman empire, the Irish Missionaries recopied all of the books that had been otherwise destroyed, and brought Christianity to the so-called "barbarians" of Europe if Thomas Cahill had studied walsh history more closely he would of found a welsh seed there.

[jimsim3]

It took Viking attacks to bring Welsh and English Christians closer together. It was to take the descendants of the Vikings, the Normans, to bring the Welsh at the point of a sword under the authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury

[jimsim3]

This period is usually called the 'Age of the Saints', a time of intense Christian activity in western and northern Britain and Ireland. Probably the most famous 'Welsh' missionary is St Patrick, who began the conversion of the Irish people. Ireland would later send out its own missionaries all over western Europe, and Patrick became acknowledged as the patron saint of the island.

[jimsim3]

By the time of St Augustine's mission in 597 AD to convert the Germanic tribes of south eastern Britain, Christianity was long established in Wales and other parts of western Britain, such as Cumbria and Cornwall. The earliest Welsh poetry dates from just before St Augustine set foot on Britain, and the poems of Taliesin and Aneirin's Y Gododdin bear testimony to the fact that Christianity was by then long established amongst the native British.

[jimsim3]

Gildas wrote of the decline and ruin of Britain caused by its debauched and decadent rulers, with the pagan invaders being God's revenge for their spectacular fall from grace. The conflict, particularly with the Anglo-Saxons, created a process during the next two hundred years whereby a 'Welsh' people emerged out of the remaining Romano-Britons and native peoples, with their identity being chiefly based on a common religion and a common language.