 Anyway, yeah, if you could bear with me, I don't know an awful lot about him because I've only really started researching him But I found it I found the interesting and fascinating part of his story is that he actually did come into any show I'm right when whenever St. Patrick as you know was arrived in Ireland as a slave he He escaped and went back to England and when he were when he returned to Wales He had a calling to come back to Ireland He had four different callings to come back to Ireland, but that's that kind of happened over the course of a number of years It's not like he arrived back from from Ireland and and got a calling and came straight back He he was actually very I used to think as a child that he was a legendary figure like who Colin but he actually was a very real person and He After he had escaped and he got the calling to come back. He refused to go back. He didn't feel qualified or equipped to go back and Help the Irish so he Basically, he didn't listen to the first calling and because he thought he was hearing voices in his head and or having weird dreams And then he got a second one and I think when he got the second one He then decided to become a priest so he set off to France where his uncle was a bishop Well known Bishop to this day called St. Martin of Tours. He died in 397 80 and he gave St. Patrick his monastic habit in France And he spent the best part of seven or eight years in France And then he went to the Vatican to be ordained. He was ordained by the Bishop of there in 14 18 or sorry for 18 80 But that's that's the backdrop to it. He then got his orders to go to Ireland He wanted to go to Ireland and he was very you can see from the from his career He wanted to do everything right. He didn't want to come over ill equipped He wanted to come over with everything that he would have needed to do this incredible project and And then as I started reading into it. I was shocked to see that he came into Nishon So he went up to Green, Nevada when in his travels when he arrived So the first story is when he arrived in Ireland. He was actually quite smart He knew that the King the High King of all of Ireland Based his power in me and that every year on Easter He lit a fire on the top of the mountain in the meat there Tara And nobody was allowed to write light a fire before his and if you did it was punishable by death So St. Patrick claimed the hill of slain and lit a fire before the King lit his fire at which point the The pagans that were advising the King of the day were furious But even may knew the threat that existed from him lighting this fire So the the pagans instructed the King to obviously bring Board for having lit the fire and said that if you don't This fire that St. Patrick has lit on the hill of slain will spread all over Ireland They they kind of had a prophecy of it if you like so the King descends on St. Patrick At slain and instructs his soldiers to put St. Patrick to the sword and it's a When you read the diaries of St. Patrick because St. Patrick didn't arrive in Ireland and has only came with an entourage He recorded all of his travels and his dealings So it's quite well recorded in fact his ordination the documents for his ordination are still sitting in the Vatican to this day If anybody could ever get into the archives So whenever the King tried to kill him St. Patrick killed one of the soldiers basically through supposedly through the power of God After that he won favor with the King and he was given permission to evangelize Ireland And that's when he starts traveling around and fighting with pagans at every turn and every opposition that he got He finally arrives up and he's showing because this is a bit that it's relevant to us And he had to go up to Green, Nevada to get permission from the chief at the top of Green, Nevada to evangelize in the show and the chief gave him permission and He set off and that's what intrigued me because if he set off from in it from Green, Nevada Up at Burt there to come into and he show him Then he would have almost certainly have walked down the beaches of Bunkranna, which I thought I found fascinating That's that you're talking 1500 years ago St. Patrick walked Effectively through what would have been Bunkranna then you know Yeah, I'll just read the wee bit of we excerpt here for you Just to let you see from Royal Alec Patrick set out with as usual familiar to preach the gospel in Owens Island And he's shown deserves the name for it's almost entirely surrounded by the sea except at the narrow neck of dairy to inch So the slab lands were underwater there at Burt's back 1500 years ago So any shown was literally an island with a very narrow road out to it Which I found interesting as Patrick set out from a lock He probably went by burn foot to Bunkranna and then traveled along the western slopes of slave Chinat to the fairtale valley beyond its No way so much and that's recorded in the tripartite into the territory of Fergus son of one So he arrives into any show when he asked for permission to build a church in the first village that he stopped at and then he Showed he was refused permission and he moved whoever they were. I'd love to know who they were They refused and permission to build the church and then he headed into Cardona and built the first church in a show And he actually in his diaries. He actually records that he particularly liked any show and I think when you read it And you see the descriptions that he's giving I think it's I think it's the Isle of Doe is referring to he thought it was beautiful And he fell in love with it but of course he had to head on then on this and my not is a his mission So he heads off down on down by mail in that and So it's all recorded there. It's a huge huge journey a huge project to research him But it's got the makings of a great film, you know So if somebody has a has a has a phone number from Al Gibson Maybe we should try to get him to make a film about the Patrick because the story is really fascinating You know our Pierce Brosnan or Liam Neeson. They're both in the country. I think at the minute But anyhow, so Patrick didn't get permission to build a church its leaf snagged But went on and did get permission in Karen Donna and and built a church there Yeah, he actually actually wrote a poem about Dutty God as well And as regards the chiefs that gave permission to canvas or evangelizing the show and he put a blessing on them Which I thought was very funny He said whenever you are your successors after you put your foot out of bed The men of Aaron will tremble before you Put a blessing on the men of any show and said that when we put our feet out of the bed The whole of Ireland will tremble before us. I used to look at my own sons And I used to think the problem is getting their feet out of the bed What about what about the famous banishing of snakes from Ireland Can you tell us I think that's symbolic. I think that's symbolic I mean as Dana said earlier there Ireland was a very dark place with child sacrifice etc going on Many many ways people would say Ireland's just as dark today as it was then but the banish of the snakes was really more symbolic of the Conversion of Ireland to Christianity Ireland the amazing story of Ireland and there's a priest their father Chris Alar If anybody wants to look him up these American priests He used to be an engineer and he trained to be a priest. He's now ordained a priest He was he's fascinated with in Patrick as well He was able to highlight that St. Patrick is the patron saint of engineers believe it or not But basically what he highlighted was that Ireland was one of the first countries in the Western world to be Christianized and That it became a powerhouse almost like an engine for the Catholic Church to spread Christianity across the world It was really from Ireland that that Christianity survived the Dark Ages and Spread all over the world didn't call him up here from Donnie Gall himself He ended up being one of the first printers if you like our publishers of the Bible and setting up monasteries all over Europe So you can see Ireland when John F. Kennedy came to Ireland he referred to Ireland at the land of saints and scholars Yeah speech that we do have a reputation because we wear the powerhouse of the Catholic Church for the whole world You go to Nigeria today Ireland is Celebrated in Nigeria because of all the good works of the mystery priests there You know and you said earlier that St. Patrick was someone who it would seem like to do things the right way It took him a long time to train as a priest was that would that have been the norm back then because they went to France first and then went from there over to Rome and is it something like 15 years in total? Yeah, yeah, I think it was 10 anyway You know he spent a long time with his uncle in tours in France under a monastic habit there So, you know it did take some time before he came back I know that we all like the romantic story of he just turned on his heels and whales and came back to Ireland but he didn't he came back well equipped so they came with an entourage and You know so as you can see like it the task of converting Ireland Back from begging is a is a huge undertaking, you know But in saying that to he had his processes as well He said that the faith in Ireland will die down to burning embers and sparse locations Which we're starting to see now church attendance and masses very very low and all over it's suffering or donations Are way down Vocations are way down but what on a more positive note he says that the faith will roar back from Eulidia, which is North I was trying to figure out where that was I had to get old maps to try and find where Eulidia is in Ireland and Turns out Eulidia is down Patrick. We're seeing Patrick. Actually, they believe as berries. So that was interesting too And then of course, there's there's other prophecies flying around that Patrick said in the final days of Ireland Ireland will slip beneath the waves But that's not all I know about it so far no, that's that that's good keep keep digging Christopher And it would be too bad of our patron saint who couldn't have a strong connection to Donegal And and it's great to get a bit of an insight. Thanks. Thanks, Christopher Well, did you know is it they know we built the first church in Cairns? So if anybody can find it it would be pretty amazing But as Colgan is a historian up in Cairndon a Colgan Hall was named after him He spent a lot of his life trying to find where he built that first church So it's partly built near a river called Ace Macnick There's a ledge of rock and a mountain stream that comes down from Sleeveshnacht Over which the water leaps into a deep pool below. Well, if anybody comes across it, let us know For sure. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thanks, Christopher