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To narrate in detail
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either the whole story
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of my labors or even parts
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of it would take a long time.
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So, I shall tell
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you briefly how God,
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the all-holy one, often
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freed me from slavery
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and from 12 dangers
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which threatened my life,
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as well as from many
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snares and from things
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which I am unable
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to express in words.
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To find
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the real St. Patrick,
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you have to peel back
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centuries of legend and myth.
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There's the image
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- of him driving out
- snakes from Ireland.
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- The bishop
- with the miter
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And the staff and the crozier.
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He's also associated
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very strongly
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with the shamrock.
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And then
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Shamrock gives us green.
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- People
- think he's Irish
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When in fact he's British.
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Most of the preconception
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- that we've got
- about St. Patrick
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Actually is completely wrong.
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Most of what we
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know about the real Patrick
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comes from his own
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5th century letter,
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known as the Confessio
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or Confession.
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It is one of the earliest
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surviving documents
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in Irish history.
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"I, Patrick, a sinner,
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least faithful of many."
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Those are the words that
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begin the history of Ireland.
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I am Patrick.
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I am a sinner,
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the most unsophisticated
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of people;
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the least among
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all the Christians;
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and, to some, the
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most contemptible.
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Patrick was writing
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his message to people
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who had allowed him to come
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here to Ireland as a missionary.
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There's various controversies
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that become associated
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with Patrick and he's defending
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his good name and character.
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Even if
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I am imperfect in many things
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I want my brothers and
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relatives to know
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the sort of man
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I am, so that they
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may understand
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what it is to which I
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have committed my soul.
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Again Patrick.
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Shouldn't we
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wait and see what happens?
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I understand the plight,
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but we still must collect.
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- I am
- the son of deacon Calpornius,
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As he was the son of the
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priest Potitus who belonged
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to the village of
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Bannavem Taburniae.
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Bannavem Taburniae
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was a village located
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somewhere along the
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western coast of Britain,
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which at the time was
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part of the Roman Empire.
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The Roman Empire
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was disintegrating.
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The legions were called
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back to Rome to defend it
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against the barbarians.
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As the Roman administration
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and structures shrank
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in Britain it allowed
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for local leaders
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to come to the fore.
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All the gold coins first.
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Yes.
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We stack them here.
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- One of those
- leaders was Patrick's father,
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Whom he also describes
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as a Decurion.
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- You understand?
- Yes.
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- The
- Decurions are basically
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The local Roman civil service.
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In other words,
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they keep the tax books.
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But if there was a shortfall,
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then it had to come out
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of their own resources.
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So, we find that in
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the late Roman Empire,
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a lot of these people
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began to join the church
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because they had an exemption
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or at least a tax rebate,
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shall we say.
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Patrick says,
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- "We didn't pay
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"to our religion," et cetera.
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- It would suggest that his
- people were Christian,
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Of course, but you
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know, money counts.
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The blood of Christ Jesus.
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Amen.
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Would you like some prunes?
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- These
- people were well off.
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- They had a villa
- outside the town.
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- They had male and
- female slaves.
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Slave!
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Enjoy the bread.
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He would have been
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taught to read and write,
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not only so that he could
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take over the clerical aspect
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of his parents,
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but the tax aspect,
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which would have
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required literacy.
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Much better.
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Patrick
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had a bright future.
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But living on the edge of the
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Roman Empire was dangerous.
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11!
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All right, here we go!
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Patrick was taken
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captive by Irish raiders.
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- The reason
- they didn't kill him
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Was that he was valuable.
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- Slaves are a
- valuable commodity.
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- He probably
- thought that he would
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- Never see his home again,
- never see his parents,
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Never see his family.
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It was a one-way
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ticket to the unknown.
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Patrick
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endured a dangerous voyage
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across the sea to the
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eastern coast of Ireland.
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The Roman Britain view
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was Ireland was a place
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of Barbarians at the
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end of the world.
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Clearly at this point
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there is some sort of market
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for British slaves in Ireland.
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And Patrick himself tells
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us that there are many,
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many of his countrymen
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who are also slaves
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in Ireland as well.
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Get going, boy!
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Celtic people did not work
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with slaves the same way
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that the Romans did.
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- They treated their slaves
- pretty badly, like cattle,
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And would've worked
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you until you died.
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Particularly
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as a non-Irish slave,
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he would have been at an
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even greater disadvantage
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because he wouldn't have been
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recognized almost as a person.
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Presumably it is a sort of
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meant-to-be slavery for life.
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We had
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pulled back from God;
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we did not keep
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his commandments;
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and we did not listen
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to our priests who kept
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on warning us regarding
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our salvation.
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And so the Lord poured
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upon us the heat
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of his anger and dispersed
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us among many peoples right
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out to the very
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ends of the earth,
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where now my utter
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insignificance
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is seen among these
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men of an alien land.
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He begins to
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conclude that this has happened
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because I deserved it
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basically and this happened
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to shake me out of my
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complacency and to shake me
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out of a way of
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life I was living,
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- in which God didn't
- matter for me.
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- The idea
- that he was now a slave,
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It's the world
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turned upside down.
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- I
- remained in death and unbelief
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Until I was truly
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punished and, in truth,
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brought low by daily
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deprivations of
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hunger and nakedness.
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- There would have
- been raiding parties
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Learning military tactics
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and they had to go off
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and get the head of a
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person from another tribe.
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So these were dangerous people,
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- they were dangerous to
- their own people as well.
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And it was under those
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conditions that he began
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to reflect upon
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himself, his life,
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and his relationship with
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God and the other world.
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There the
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Lord opened my understanding
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to my unbelief,
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so that however late,
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I might become conscious
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of my failings.
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Then remembering
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my need, I might turn
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with all my heart
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to the Lord my God.
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For it was He who looked
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after me before I knew Him.
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Indeed, as a father
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consoles his son,
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so He protected me.
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He's learning that God
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is a father he can trust,
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- and who wants
- what's best for him.
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Then something began in him
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that was destined to continue.
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I tended sheep every day,
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and I prayed frequently
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during the day.
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And more and more,
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the love of God
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and the fear of Him
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grew in me, and my faith
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was increased and my
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spirit was quickened,
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so that in a day
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I prayed up to 100 times,
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and almost as many
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in the night.
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Indeed, I even
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remained in the wood
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and on the mountain to pray.
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And come hail, rain or snow,
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I was up before dawn to pray;
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the Spirit was fervent in me.
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- Something
- new is happening,
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Something that hadn't
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happened before.
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That personal
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relationship, the dimension
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of a personal
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relationship with God.
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This sears his soul.
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So much so that he describes it
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almost as a
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conversion experience.
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Patrick's
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zeal for God grew
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so much that even though
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he was starving, he fasted.
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Fasting was the
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way you demonstrated you
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were really feeling
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your prayer.
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You were not just saying words.
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It was there indeed,
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that one night I heard a voice.
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Patrick.
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Well have you fasted.
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Very soon you are to
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travel to your homeland.
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Behold, your ship is prepared.
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I took flight, leaving the man
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I had been bound
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to for six years.
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The ship was not nearby,
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but maybe 200 miles away
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where I had never been
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and where I knew nobody.
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When you
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left your tribal group,
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you were really going
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into unknown territory
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and you were losing
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protection immediately.
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The real challenge
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was traveling through
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Ireland as a foreigner.
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- Although he could now
- speak the Irish language,
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His accent and appearance
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would give him away at once.
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The biggest danger is
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someone says, you're a slave.
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- I'll find out
- where you come from
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And I'll take you back
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and I'll claim a reward.
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I traveled in the power of God,
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who directed my path towards
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the good, and I feared nothing.
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He wasn't afraid
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because he had come to know God
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whose plans for Patrick's life
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were going to be worked out
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and realized,
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with Patrick's consent
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and with Patrick's
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cooperation in the Spirit.
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In those days,
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- Ireland was a patchwork quilt
- of little kingdoms.
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There were no roads,
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there were no towns.
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- This would have
- been mainly bog land.
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How would have Patrick
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concealed himself?
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- You have to
- think of him in terms
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- Of the way prisoners
- of war have
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To get back over
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enemy territory.
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You've got to be
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fast on your feet,
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fast with your tongue,
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and keep your eyes wide open.
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By being
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fairly stealthful,
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he could have worked his way
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- to a point in
- which he knew there
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Were ships leaving for Britain.
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The ship was about to depart
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on the very day I arrived.
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I want to set sail with you.
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By no means are
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you coming with us!
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Go on!
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Go on!
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I began to pray.
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And before I finished
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my prayer,
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I heard one of
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the crew shouting.
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Come quickly!
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Come on, we're
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taking you on faith.
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- Patrick was
- then asked to pledge himself
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To the crew through
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a Celtic tradition
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that involved sucking
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on their chests.
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- These days we
- would shake hands.
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In those days that
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was a... a way of bonding
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00:19:10,232 --> 00:19:12,110
with each other to show that
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you would be loyal to them.
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He didn't want to do that
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because he was Christian.
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I can't.
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Go on.
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Move!
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Despite this,
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00:19:35,551 --> 00:19:36,759
I stayed with them
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00:19:36,801 --> 00:19:37,927
but I hoped that some
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of them would come
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to faith in Jesus Christ,
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for they were all pagans.
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Give me that.
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00:19:44,391 --> 00:19:45,685
Put that on.
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Load it.
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And without further ado,
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00:19:50,648 --> 00:19:52,232
we got underway.
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Come on, put
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00:19:53,381 --> 00:19:54,485
your back in it! Yah!
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00:19:55,987 --> 00:19:57,968
There must be a
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00:19:57,969 --> 00:19:59,949
tremendous sense of elation.
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"Yes!
405
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:02,869
"This is right!
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00:20:02,910 --> 00:20:04,871
"I have had a vision,
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I've followed God.
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00:20:06,873 --> 00:20:08,916
It's worked out."
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00:20:08,958 --> 00:20:10,209
The way
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00:20:10,210 --> 00:20:11,460
Patrick remembers it,
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00:20:11,502 --> 00:20:13,253
it's not his efforts
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00:20:13,295 --> 00:20:14,943
or his good luck,
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00:20:14,944 --> 00:20:16,590
but it's the grace of God.
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00:20:28,895 --> 00:20:31,355
We landed after three days
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00:20:31,397 --> 00:20:32,961
and for the next 28
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00:20:32,962 --> 00:20:34,525
days we made our way
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00:20:34,567 --> 00:20:36,027
through the wilderness.
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00:20:42,909 --> 00:20:44,077
Either the boat
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00:20:44,078 --> 00:20:45,244
gets blown off course,
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00:20:45,285 --> 00:20:46,412
they land beyond
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00:20:46,413 --> 00:20:47,538
the Roman frontiers,
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00:20:47,580 --> 00:20:48,769
or alternatively
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00:20:48,770 --> 00:20:49,957
the port they arrive
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00:20:49,999 --> 00:20:51,480
in may have been subject
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00:20:51,481 --> 00:20:52,960
to barbarian raiding
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00:20:53,002 --> 00:20:54,546
that's been laid-waste
427
00:20:54,547 --> 00:20:56,089
in some way.
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00:20:56,130 --> 00:20:57,194
Maybe they
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00:20:57,195 --> 00:20:58,257
were going on a raid
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00:20:58,298 --> 00:21:00,467
and didn't want to be seen.
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00:21:00,509 --> 00:21:02,470
So, they land in a part of the
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00:21:02,471 --> 00:21:04,430
country far from habitation.
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00:21:11,478 --> 00:21:13,773
When their food ran out,
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00:21:13,814 --> 00:21:16,525
starvation overcame them.
435
00:21:17,985 --> 00:21:19,674
So now Christian,
436
00:21:19,675 --> 00:21:21,363
you explain to us
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00:21:21,405 --> 00:21:23,199
how we're in this bad state.
438
00:21:24,242 --> 00:21:26,119
- Your God is great
- and all powerful,
439
00:21:27,411 --> 00:21:28,642
So why are you not able
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00:21:28,643 --> 00:21:29,872
to pray for us?
441
00:21:31,165 --> 00:21:32,542
We who are on the very
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00:21:32,543 --> 00:21:33,918
brink of starvation.
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00:21:40,883 --> 00:21:43,385
Turn in trust...
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00:21:45,471 --> 00:21:46,764
and with your whole heart
445
00:21:46,765 --> 00:21:48,057
to the Lord,
446
00:21:48,099 --> 00:21:51,165
my God to whom
447
00:21:51,166 --> 00:21:54,230
nothing is impossible,
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00:21:54,272 --> 00:21:56,670
that today He may send
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00:21:56,671 --> 00:21:59,068
food to satisfy you
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00:21:59,110 --> 00:22:00,278
on your journey,
451
00:22:06,617 --> 00:22:10,204
for He has abundance everywhere.
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00:22:27,096 --> 00:22:28,222
They made camp there
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00:22:28,223 --> 00:22:29,347
for two nights,
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00:22:29,389 --> 00:22:31,016
and they were well
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00:22:31,017 --> 00:22:32,643
restored, for many of them
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00:22:32,685 --> 00:22:34,875
had dropped out and had been
457
00:22:34,876 --> 00:22:37,064
left half dead by the roadside.
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00:22:37,106 --> 00:22:39,171
And after this they
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00:22:39,172 --> 00:22:41,235
thanked God mightily,
460
00:22:41,277 --> 00:22:42,862
and I became honorable
461
00:22:42,863 --> 00:22:44,446
in their eyes.
462
00:22:56,834 --> 00:22:57,981
That very night,
463
00:22:57,982 --> 00:22:59,128
while I was sleeping,
464
00:22:59,170 --> 00:23:02,756
Satan strongly tried me.
465
00:23:02,798 --> 00:23:05,009
Something like an enormous
466
00:23:05,010 --> 00:23:07,220
rock fell on top of me
467
00:23:07,261 --> 00:23:08,950
and I lost all
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00:23:08,951 --> 00:23:10,639
power over my limbs.
469
00:23:11,557 --> 00:23:13,059
In his distress,
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00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:14,977
- Patrick says
- he called on Elias.
471
00:23:15,019 --> 00:23:16,041
Elias in
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00:23:16,042 --> 00:23:17,063
Latin means Elijah.
473
00:23:17,104 --> 00:23:18,314
And there are a number
474
00:23:18,315 --> 00:23:19,523
of people who believe
475
00:23:19,565 --> 00:23:21,275
it's a parallel with Christ
476
00:23:21,317 --> 00:23:22,964
on the cross who calls out
477
00:23:22,965 --> 00:23:24,611
"Eli Eli" as he was dying.
478
00:23:24,653 --> 00:23:25,529
Elias!
479
00:23:25,571 --> 00:23:27,365
- Elias!
- Elias!
480
00:23:35,373 --> 00:23:37,521
Behold the sun's
481
00:23:37,522 --> 00:23:39,668
splendor fell on me
482
00:23:39,710 --> 00:23:41,629
and dispelled immediately all
483
00:23:41,630 --> 00:23:43,547
the heaviness from upon me.
484
00:23:45,507 --> 00:23:47,218
And I believe that Christ,
485
00:23:47,260 --> 00:23:49,116
my Lord assisted
486
00:23:49,117 --> 00:23:50,971
me and his Spirit
487
00:23:51,013 --> 00:23:52,285
had already cried
488
00:23:52,286 --> 00:23:53,557
out through me.
489
00:23:59,855 --> 00:24:01,566
As we traveled,
490
00:24:01,567 --> 00:24:03,276
the Lord looked after us
491
00:24:03,317 --> 00:24:05,820
with food, fire and
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00:24:05,821 --> 00:24:08,322
dry shelter each day.
493
00:24:08,364 --> 00:24:10,241
And on the very night
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00:24:10,242 --> 00:24:12,118
we reached humanity,
495
00:24:12,159 --> 00:24:14,120
we had no food left.
496
00:24:15,329 --> 00:24:17,248
- We're looking
- for food and lodging.
497
00:24:17,290 --> 00:24:18,624
Can you show us where?
498
00:24:19,417 --> 00:24:20,584
Can you take us?
499
00:24:22,253 --> 00:24:23,525
For Patrick,
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00:24:23,526 --> 00:24:24,797
finding civilization
501
00:24:24,838 --> 00:24:26,882
only led to more problems.
502
00:24:30,094 --> 00:24:32,034
I was
503
00:24:32,035 --> 00:24:33,973
once again taken captive.
504
00:24:46,110 --> 00:24:47,278
Take him.
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00:24:58,456 --> 00:24:59,706
On the very first night
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00:24:59,748 --> 00:25:01,000
I was with them,
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00:25:01,041 --> 00:25:04,544
I received a divine revelation.
508
00:25:04,586 --> 00:25:07,652
Patrick, you will
509
00:25:07,653 --> 00:25:10,717
remain with them for two
510
00:25:04,586 --> 00:25:10,717
months.
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00:25:20,644 --> 00:25:22,021
On the 60th night,
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00:25:22,062 --> 00:25:25,441
this is exactly what happened.
513
00:25:25,483 --> 00:25:26,567
The Lord freed me
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00:25:26,568 --> 00:25:27,651
from their hands.
515
00:26:10,027 --> 00:26:11,195
Patrick?
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00:26:14,781 --> 00:26:15,991
Patrick.
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00:26:16,033 --> 00:26:17,201
My son.
518
00:26:17,243 --> 00:26:18,411
Patrick!
519
00:26:19,537 --> 00:26:20,662
He's alive.
520
00:26:20,704 --> 00:26:21,788
You're alive.
521
00:26:24,166 --> 00:26:25,375
Thank God.
522
00:26:25,376 --> 00:26:26,584
We thought you were dead.
523
00:26:26,626 --> 00:26:28,399
Of all of the many
524
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,172
slaves that were taken
525
00:26:30,214 --> 00:26:32,007
from the Roman Empire,
526
00:26:32,008 --> 00:26:33,800
we know the name of only one
527
00:26:33,842 --> 00:26:36,011
that was taken and
528
00:26:36,012 --> 00:26:38,180
escaped, Patrick.
529
00:26:39,306 --> 00:26:42,017
They gave me a son's welcome,
530
00:26:43,394 --> 00:26:46,604
and in good faith, begged me,
531
00:26:46,646 --> 00:26:49,483
after all those great
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00:26:49,484 --> 00:26:52,319
tribulations I had been through,
533
00:26:52,361 --> 00:26:54,947
that I should go nowhere,
534
00:26:54,948 --> 00:26:57,533
nor ever leave them.
535
00:27:06,875 --> 00:27:09,627
Get you some bread!
536
00:27:09,669 --> 00:27:10,796
The Patrick who returned
537
00:27:10,837 --> 00:27:12,089
to them was very different
538
00:27:12,131 --> 00:27:14,174
than the Patrick that had left,
539
00:27:14,216 --> 00:27:15,238
and his experiences
540
00:27:15,239 --> 00:27:16,260
had changed him so much
541
00:27:16,302 --> 00:27:18,154
- as an individual that he
- was no longer interested
542
00:27:18,178 --> 00:27:19,680
In going back to the
543
00:27:19,681 --> 00:27:21,181
life as he had it.
544
00:27:24,935 --> 00:27:26,895
You're home Patrick.
545
00:27:26,937 --> 00:27:28,105
You're home.
546
00:27:36,363 --> 00:27:37,490
Soon
547
00:27:37,491 --> 00:27:38,616
after his return,
548
00:27:38,656 --> 00:27:41,327
Patrick had another vision.
549
00:27:53,130 --> 00:27:55,007
A man
550
00:27:55,008 --> 00:27:56,883
named Victoricus arrived
551
00:27:56,925 --> 00:27:58,906
from Ireland with
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00:27:58,907 --> 00:28:00,887
countless letters.
553
00:28:00,929 --> 00:28:03,661
He gave me one of them and I
554
00:28:03,662 --> 00:28:06,393
began to read what was in it.
555
00:28:06,435 --> 00:28:07,916
In all probability
556
00:28:07,917 --> 00:28:09,396
it was someone
557
00:28:09,438 --> 00:28:11,273
that Patrick knew from Ireland.
558
00:28:15,569 --> 00:28:18,489
The voice of the Irish?
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00:28:18,531 --> 00:28:19,990
At that very moment,
560
00:28:21,741 --> 00:28:23,285
I thought I heard
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00:28:23,286 --> 00:28:24,828
the voice of those
562
00:28:24,870 --> 00:28:27,707
around the Wood of Foclut which
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00:28:27,708 --> 00:28:30,543
is close to the Western Sea.
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00:28:30,584 --> 00:28:31,835
'O Holy Boy...
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00:28:31,877 --> 00:28:33,462
- We beg you
- to come again...
566
00:28:33,504 --> 00:28:35,839
And walk among us.
567
00:28:35,881 --> 00:28:39,343
I was brokenhearted
568
00:28:39,385 --> 00:28:40,594
and could not read
569
00:28:40,595 --> 00:28:41,803
anything more.
570
00:28:42,929 --> 00:28:46,058
And at that moment I woke up!
571
00:28:55,192 --> 00:28:57,110
That transforms Patrick.
572
00:28:57,152 --> 00:28:59,446
That is his call
573
00:28:59,447 --> 00:29:01,740
to be a missionary.
574
00:29:10,123 --> 00:29:13,335
I was not quick in accepting
575
00:29:13,377 --> 00:29:15,379
what He had made clear to me
576
00:29:18,340 --> 00:29:20,092
and the Spirit reminded me.
577
00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:42,239
And the Lord
578
00:29:42,281 --> 00:29:43,907
was merciful to me thousands
579
00:29:43,949 --> 00:29:45,430
upon thousands of times
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00:29:45,431 --> 00:29:46,910
because He saw what was
581
00:29:46,952 --> 00:29:51,415
within me and that I was ready
582
00:29:51,457 --> 00:29:53,375
- but I did not know
- what I should do
583
00:29:53,417 --> 00:29:55,043
About the state of my life.
584
00:30:03,552 --> 00:30:05,763
The blood of Christ Jesus.
585
00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:07,806
We beg you to come
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00:30:07,807 --> 00:30:09,808
again and walk among us.
587
00:30:13,061 --> 00:30:14,354
Amen.
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00:30:32,665 --> 00:30:35,208
Can I speak with you?
589
00:30:35,250 --> 00:30:38,441
No one in Christianity
590
00:30:38,442 --> 00:30:41,632
before the 16th century
591
00:30:35,250 --> 00:30:41,632
thinks you
592
00:30:41,674 --> 00:30:43,777
- can just have a ministry because
- you just have a ministry.
593
00:30:43,801 --> 00:30:44,990
You have to think of
594
00:30:44,991 --> 00:30:46,178
ministry through the ministry
595
00:30:46,219 --> 00:30:47,429
of the church.
596
00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:51,057
What brings you here?
597
00:30:52,392 --> 00:30:56,021
I wish to be a cleric.
598
00:31:00,693 --> 00:31:02,068
- Patrick
- had to work his way
599
00:31:02,110 --> 00:31:03,821
Up the ranks to become
600
00:31:03,822 --> 00:31:05,531
a bishop.
601
00:31:05,572 --> 00:31:07,762
Bishops can ordain priests
602
00:31:07,763 --> 00:31:09,951
so you can create a hierarchy
603
00:31:09,993 --> 00:31:11,057
that will survive
604
00:31:11,058 --> 00:31:12,120
after your death.
605
00:31:12,162 --> 00:31:14,394
You have to have a bishop in
606
00:31:14,395 --> 00:31:16,625
order to establish a Church.
607
00:31:19,002 --> 00:31:20,796
Amen.
608
00:31:20,838 --> 00:31:21,964
The style
609
00:31:21,965 --> 00:31:23,089
of formation training
610
00:31:23,131 --> 00:31:25,154
would have been mentoring
611
00:31:25,155 --> 00:31:27,177
in basic responsibilities
612
00:31:27,219 --> 00:31:28,220
of how to celebrate
613
00:31:28,221 --> 00:31:29,221
the liturgy,
614
00:31:29,262 --> 00:31:31,097
pastoral duties towards people,
615
00:31:31,139 --> 00:31:32,599
preaching, sacramental
616
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,059
celebration.
617
00:31:36,144 --> 00:31:37,562
I'm here to learn
618
00:31:37,563 --> 00:31:38,980
about the Lord.
619
00:31:39,022 --> 00:31:40,399
There are many scrolls.
620
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,568
It's believed that Patrick's
621
00:31:42,609 --> 00:31:44,045
- apprenticeship took him
- to Gaul, Northern France,
622
00:31:44,069 --> 00:31:45,487
For a time.
623
00:31:48,365 --> 00:31:50,158
- It would
- have been the equivalent
624
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,160
Of going from
625
00:31:52,161 --> 00:31:54,120
Alaska to New York.
626
00:31:54,162 --> 00:31:55,559
If he wanted to meet
627
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:56,956
lots of other Christians
628
00:31:56,998 --> 00:31:58,333
whom he could talk
629
00:31:58,334 --> 00:31:59,668
to about theology
630
00:31:59,710 --> 00:32:00,982
and about faith
631
00:32:00,983 --> 00:32:02,254
and about belief,
632
00:32:02,295 --> 00:32:03,713
then Gaul would be
633
00:32:03,714 --> 00:32:05,131
the place to go.
634
00:32:06,466 --> 00:32:07,843
Of course it was
635
00:32:07,844 --> 00:32:09,219
always, you know.
636
00:32:13,891 --> 00:32:15,517
- During
- his training,
637
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:16,581
Patrick developed
638
00:32:16,582 --> 00:32:17,603
a close friendship
639
00:32:17,644 --> 00:32:19,062
with a young clergyman in
640
00:32:19,063 --> 00:32:20,480
whom he felt he could confide.
641
00:32:22,190 --> 00:32:23,400
Felix.
642
00:32:27,195 --> 00:32:28,488
I am a sinner.
643
00:32:30,407 --> 00:32:32,117
I must confess what I have done.
644
00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:35,788
Once when I was anxious
645
00:32:35,829 --> 00:32:37,560
and worried I hinted
646
00:32:37,561 --> 00:32:39,291
to my dearest friend
647
00:32:39,332 --> 00:32:40,917
about something I
648
00:32:40,918 --> 00:32:42,502
had done one day,
649
00:32:42,544 --> 00:32:45,171
indeed in one hour of my youth,
650
00:32:45,213 --> 00:32:47,153
for I had not then
651
00:32:47,154 --> 00:32:49,092
prevailed over my sinfulness
652
00:32:49,134 --> 00:32:50,615
and I was not a believer
653
00:32:50,616 --> 00:32:52,095
in the true God.
654
00:32:53,764 --> 00:32:55,724
Many have tried to guess
655
00:32:55,766 --> 00:32:57,493
- what Patrick's boyhood
- sin might have been.
656
00:32:57,517 --> 00:32:59,269
Some say it was immorality.
657
00:32:59,311 --> 00:33:00,896
Others, idolatry
658
00:33:00,897 --> 00:33:02,481
or even murder.
659
00:33:02,522 --> 00:33:03,732
But the truth is
660
00:33:03,733 --> 00:33:04,942
that no one knows,
661
00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:06,944
- because Patrick
- doesn't tell us.
662
00:33:11,406 --> 00:33:13,325
Am I ever to be forgiven?
663
00:33:24,670 --> 00:33:26,421
You are forgiven.
664
00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:35,973
Patrick.
665
00:34:11,174 --> 00:34:12,592
Patrick!
666
00:34:13,969 --> 00:34:15,178
You have a visitor.
667
00:34:16,346 --> 00:34:17,639
Felix.
668
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,183
Patrick.
669
00:34:20,225 --> 00:34:22,268
Please, help yourself.
670
00:34:24,437 --> 00:34:25,543
What is it that brings
671
00:34:25,544 --> 00:34:26,648
you all the way out here?
672
00:34:31,361 --> 00:34:33,843
It appears that you are to
673
00:34:33,844 --> 00:34:36,324
be given the rank of bishop.
674
00:34:46,835 --> 00:34:48,086
I am unworthy.
675
00:34:49,046 --> 00:34:51,715
It is the will of the elders.
676
00:34:57,345 --> 00:34:59,222
This is quite a surprise.
677
00:34:59,264 --> 00:35:00,599
I'm not sure I...
678
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,076
- I am expected in
- Cardiff by nightfall.
679
00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:03,268
I must go.
680
00:35:03,309 --> 00:35:05,437
Of course.
681
00:35:07,814 --> 00:35:09,024
Wait!
682
00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:49,499
Amen.
683
00:36:55,005 --> 00:36:56,381
Go in peace, friend.
684
00:37:00,052 --> 00:37:01,282
Many were forbidding
685
00:37:01,283 --> 00:37:02,512
my mission.
686
00:37:02,554 --> 00:37:04,243
Behind my back, they
687
00:37:04,244 --> 00:37:05,932
were telling stories.
688
00:37:05,974 --> 00:37:07,184
To Ireland?
689
00:37:08,894 --> 00:37:10,412
- Well, why would
- this man put himself
690
00:37:10,436 --> 00:37:12,001
In danger among enemies
691
00:37:12,002 --> 00:37:13,565
who do not know God?
692
00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:15,400
For what reason?
693
00:37:15,441 --> 00:37:17,360
- People thought
- that this mission was crazy,
694
00:37:17,402 --> 00:37:19,362
- The Irish people were
- beyond redemption,
695
00:37:19,404 --> 00:37:20,968
That even the Roman Empire
696
00:37:20,969 --> 00:37:22,532
had not gone that far,
697
00:37:22,574 --> 00:37:24,284
and that his efforts
698
00:37:24,285 --> 00:37:25,994
to Christianize Ireland
699
00:37:26,036 --> 00:37:27,370
were doomed to failure.
700
00:37:27,412 --> 00:37:29,247
- They're savages!
- These heathen!
701
00:37:35,879 --> 00:37:37,964
- Patrick really
- believes that if he preaches
702
00:37:38,006 --> 00:37:39,695
To the end of the earth this
703
00:37:39,696 --> 00:37:41,384
will complete God's mission
704
00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:42,573
and will usher in
705
00:37:42,574 --> 00:37:43,720
the Second Coming,
706
00:37:43,762 --> 00:37:44,993
which Patrick presumably
707
00:37:44,994 --> 00:37:46,223
hoped would happen
708
00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:48,100
in his lifetime and maybe even
709
00:37:48,141 --> 00:37:50,060
as a result of his activities.
710
00:37:59,069 --> 00:38:00,486
Against all odds,
711
00:38:00,528 --> 00:38:01,592
Patrick was eventually
712
00:38:01,593 --> 00:38:02,655
permitted
713
00:38:02,697 --> 00:38:04,053
to return to Ireland
714
00:38:04,054 --> 00:38:05,408
as a missionary bishop.
715
00:38:06,952 --> 00:38:08,620
- While the British
- Church most likely
716
00:38:08,661 --> 00:38:10,329
Funded the mission continually,
717
00:38:10,371 --> 00:38:11,372
some scholars
718
00:38:11,373 --> 00:38:12,373
believe that Patrick
719
00:38:12,415 --> 00:38:14,500
paid the initial cost himself.
720
00:38:16,753 --> 00:38:18,755
He sells his nobility,
721
00:38:18,797 --> 00:38:20,524
- which I take to be a
- reference to him selling,
722
00:38:20,548 --> 00:38:22,926
Essentially his inheritance.
723
00:38:22,968 --> 00:38:24,928
- It's almost like a
- form of seed funding,
724
00:38:24,970 --> 00:38:26,013
Which will enable him
725
00:38:26,014 --> 00:38:27,055
to get to Ireland.
726
00:38:33,352 --> 00:38:35,271
I imagine that Patrick's
727
00:38:35,272 --> 00:38:37,190
parents had fully expected him
728
00:38:37,232 --> 00:38:38,963
to take on the role, as maybe
729
00:38:38,964 --> 00:38:40,693
the heir of the family.
730
00:38:43,446 --> 00:38:44,885
He would have been
731
00:38:44,886 --> 00:38:46,324
opting out of any
732
00:38:43,446 --> 00:38:46,324
responsibility
733
00:38:46,365 --> 00:38:48,201
for running estates, et cetera.
734
00:39:03,675 --> 00:39:04,906
This does not
735
00:39:04,907 --> 00:39:06,136
have to be, Patrick.
736
00:39:08,263 --> 00:39:12,142
It is the will of God.
737
00:39:30,869 --> 00:39:32,037
For the journey.
738
00:39:38,877 --> 00:39:40,796
Many gifts were
739
00:39:40,797 --> 00:39:42,714
offered to me with sorrow
740
00:39:42,755 --> 00:39:45,591
and tears and I offended them
741
00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:47,427
and went against the will
742
00:39:47,428 --> 00:39:49,221
of some of my elders.
743
00:39:52,932 --> 00:39:54,309
Father.
744
00:40:14,746 --> 00:40:16,789
It was not my grace,
745
00:40:16,831 --> 00:40:19,813
but God who conquered in me
746
00:40:19,814 --> 00:40:22,795
and who resisted them all
747
00:40:22,837 --> 00:40:25,277
that I might come to the Irish
748
00:40:25,278 --> 00:40:27,717
nations to preach the gospel.
749
00:40:45,026 --> 00:40:46,444
In terms of the
750
00:40:46,445 --> 00:40:47,862
challenge of it,
751
00:40:45,026 --> 00:40:47,862
it was just awesome.
752
00:40:47,904 --> 00:40:49,135
He didn't know what he
753
00:40:49,136 --> 00:40:50,365
faced, possible death
754
00:40:50,407 --> 00:40:52,326
and persecution, more
755
00:40:52,327 --> 00:40:54,244
slavery, imprisonment.
756
00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:57,580
- Patrick
- was not the first bishop
757
00:40:57,622 --> 00:40:59,457
To be sent to Ireland.
758
00:40:59,498 --> 00:41:00,562
He was preceded by a
759
00:41:00,563 --> 00:41:01,626
man named Palladius
760
00:41:01,667 --> 00:41:03,252
who had been sent by
761
00:41:03,253 --> 00:41:04,837
the pope a year earlier.
762
00:41:04,879 --> 00:41:06,590
Palladius is most
763
00:41:06,591 --> 00:41:08,300
likely ministering
764
00:41:08,341 --> 00:41:10,030
to a slave community
765
00:41:10,031 --> 00:41:11,719
and to traders.
766
00:41:11,761 --> 00:41:13,451
So, there were Christians
767
00:41:13,452 --> 00:41:15,140
in Ireland, and in fact,
768
00:41:15,181 --> 00:41:17,225
Patrick never assumes
769
00:41:17,226 --> 00:41:19,269
that he converts people
770
00:41:19,311 --> 00:41:21,980
from nothing to Christianity.
771
00:41:32,740 --> 00:41:33,783
According
772
00:41:33,784 --> 00:41:34,826
to the Annals of Ulster,
773
00:41:34,867 --> 00:41:36,765
Patrick arrived in Ireland
774
00:41:36,766 --> 00:41:38,663
sometime in AD 432.
775
00:41:38,704 --> 00:41:40,498
Exactly where he
776
00:41:40,499 --> 00:41:42,292
went is not known.
777
00:41:42,334 --> 00:41:43,564
But we do know that
778
00:41:43,565 --> 00:41:44,794
according to Irish law,
779
00:41:44,836 --> 00:41:47,380
Patrick was still a fugitive.
780
00:41:50,425 --> 00:41:51,989
Probably he stayed
781
00:41:51,990 --> 00:41:53,552
far away from the places
782
00:41:53,594 --> 00:41:55,554
that he had been enslaved.
783
00:41:55,596 --> 00:41:57,286
You get a constant sense that
784
00:41:57,287 --> 00:41:58,975
Patrick is living on his wits.
785
00:42:08,067 --> 00:42:09,965
He seems to be pervaded
786
00:42:09,966 --> 00:42:11,863
by the spirit of mission
787
00:42:11,904 --> 00:42:13,865
that is taking him beyond
788
00:42:13,906 --> 00:42:15,783
and abroad bringing the gospel
789
00:42:15,825 --> 00:42:17,785
where it had not reached
790
00:42:17,786 --> 00:42:19,745
before out to the very edge,
791
00:42:19,787 --> 00:42:21,310
out to the very
792
00:42:21,311 --> 00:42:22,832
periphery of Ireland.
793
00:42:32,384 --> 00:42:33,531
He seems to have this
794
00:42:33,532 --> 00:42:34,677
collective consciousness
795
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,910
of the Irish as a nation,
796
00:42:37,911 --> 00:42:41,100
so that leaves him free
797
00:42:41,142 --> 00:42:42,393
to go wherever those Irish
798
00:42:42,394 --> 00:42:43,644
people are to be found.
799
00:42:48,107 --> 00:42:49,755
He's responding just
800
00:42:49,756 --> 00:42:51,403
purely on faith that God
801
00:42:51,444 --> 00:42:53,405
- would take him where
- he wanted him to go
802
00:42:53,446 --> 00:42:54,489
And where he would
803
00:42:54,490 --> 00:42:55,532
give witness.
804
00:42:59,452 --> 00:43:00,453
Patrick was equipped for
805
00:43:00,454 --> 00:43:01,454
the job because he would
806
00:43:01,496 --> 00:43:03,373
- have been able to
- communicate to the Irish
807
00:43:03,415 --> 00:43:04,624
And bring Christianity by
808
00:43:04,625 --> 00:43:05,833
talking to them more or less
809
00:43:05,875 --> 00:43:07,043
in their own tongue.
810
00:43:08,878 --> 00:43:10,796
Evangelizing the Irish
811
00:43:10,838 --> 00:43:12,798
- would prove to be
- a challenging task.
812
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:14,258
Although Christianity was
813
00:43:14,259 --> 00:43:15,676
present in parts of Ireland,
814
00:43:15,718 --> 00:43:17,095
the country was
815
00:43:17,096 --> 00:43:18,471
predominantly pagan.
816
00:43:26,271 --> 00:43:28,669
Though I am not from this
817
00:43:28,670 --> 00:43:31,067
land, I spent many years here.
818
00:43:31,109 --> 00:43:33,069
- And I have returned
- with a message.
819
00:43:35,029 --> 00:43:36,781
What is the message you bring?
820
00:43:42,579 --> 00:43:44,039
If you let me inside,
821
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:45,498
I will tell you.
822
00:43:51,170 --> 00:43:52,735
It's a big deal
823
00:43:52,736 --> 00:43:54,299
if you become a Christian
824
00:43:54,340 --> 00:43:56,113
because you're changing a
825
00:43:56,114 --> 00:43:57,885
set of gods for one God.
826
00:43:57,927 --> 00:43:59,845
- You're buying into a
- different calendar.
827
00:43:59,887 --> 00:44:01,493
You're changing the
828
00:44:01,494 --> 00:44:03,099
people you associate with.
829
00:44:03,141 --> 00:44:04,288
It's far more like
830
00:44:04,289 --> 00:44:05,435
thinking of someone
831
00:44:05,477 --> 00:44:06,832
who lives in a completely
832
00:44:06,833 --> 00:44:08,187
Buddhist society
833
00:44:08,229 --> 00:44:09,730
becoming a Christian.
834
00:44:17,572 --> 00:44:19,782
And the prophet Hosea says,
835
00:44:19,824 --> 00:44:22,327
"Those who were not my
836
00:44:22,328 --> 00:44:24,829
people I will call my people,
837
00:44:24,870 --> 00:44:26,602
and her who was not beloved
838
00:44:26,603 --> 00:44:28,333
I will call my beloved.
839
00:44:28,374 --> 00:44:29,563
And in the very place
840
00:44:29,564 --> 00:44:30,751
where it was said to them,
841
00:44:30,793 --> 00:44:33,712
you are not my people,
842
00:44:33,754 --> 00:44:35,131
they will be called
843
00:44:35,132 --> 00:44:36,508
sons of the living God."
844
00:44:44,807 --> 00:44:47,018
Who among you heeds the call?
845
00:44:48,811 --> 00:44:50,271
The content of
846
00:44:50,272 --> 00:44:51,730
his message is not doomsday.
847
00:44:51,772 --> 00:44:53,357
It's preaching the love
848
00:44:53,358 --> 00:44:54,942
of God, and how others
849
00:44:54,984 --> 00:44:56,632
can come to know God as
850
00:44:56,633 --> 00:44:58,279
a person-loving father,
851
00:44:58,321 --> 00:44:59,738
just as he did.
852
00:45:18,007 --> 00:45:20,114
Truly it
853
00:45:20,115 --> 00:45:22,220
is our task to cast our nets
854
00:45:22,261 --> 00:45:24,430
and catch a great multitude
855
00:45:24,431 --> 00:45:26,599
and crowd for God;
856
00:45:26,641 --> 00:45:28,184
to make sure that there
857
00:45:28,185 --> 00:45:29,726
are clergy everywhere
858
00:45:29,768 --> 00:45:33,189
to baptize and preach
859
00:45:33,190 --> 00:45:36,609
to a people who are in need.
860
00:45:39,529 --> 00:45:41,489
Baptism for early
861
00:45:41,490 --> 00:45:43,449
Christians was the moment
862
00:45:43,491 --> 00:45:45,014
of commitment when you
863
00:45:45,015 --> 00:45:46,536
became a true Christian.
864
00:45:46,578 --> 00:45:48,538
And it was believed in the
865
00:45:48,539 --> 00:45:50,498
early Church that baptism
866
00:45:50,540 --> 00:45:51,642
was the one point in your life
867
00:45:51,666 --> 00:45:53,543
when your sins were washed away.
868
00:45:55,211 --> 00:45:56,921
For the Irish,
869
00:45:56,962 --> 00:45:58,399
- baptism had a
- deeper significance
870
00:45:58,423 --> 00:46:01,509
Because of their mythology.
871
00:46:01,551 --> 00:46:02,865
Water was
872
00:46:02,866 --> 00:46:04,178
associated with kingship.
873
00:46:04,220 --> 00:46:06,097
These waters all flowed
874
00:46:06,098 --> 00:46:07,973
together, entered the ocean,
875
00:46:08,015 --> 00:46:09,496
and returns as rain and
876
00:46:09,497 --> 00:46:10,976
falls upon the earth
877
00:46:11,018 --> 00:46:12,040
creating the great
878
00:46:12,041 --> 00:46:13,062
cycle of life.
879
00:46:20,236 --> 00:46:21,571
Having baptisms, having
880
00:46:21,572 --> 00:46:22,905
these public rituals
881
00:46:22,947 --> 00:46:24,678
in which people
882
00:46:24,679 --> 00:46:26,409
identify as Christians
883
00:46:26,451 --> 00:46:28,244
is really powerful and is
884
00:46:28,245 --> 00:46:30,037
probably one that transfers
885
00:46:30,079 --> 00:46:31,164
over quite easily
886
00:46:31,165 --> 00:46:32,248
and is something
887
00:46:32,290 --> 00:46:33,500
which the pagans
888
00:46:33,501 --> 00:46:34,709
could also understand
889
00:46:34,751 --> 00:46:36,252
and could see its significance.
890
00:46:42,216 --> 00:46:43,259
And I am greatly
891
00:46:43,260 --> 00:46:44,302
in God's debt.
892
00:46:45,344 --> 00:46:48,598
He has given me a great grace,
893
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,245
that through me many
894
00:46:50,246 --> 00:46:51,850
people might be reborn
895
00:46:51,892 --> 00:46:53,978
and later brought
896
00:46:53,979 --> 00:46:56,063
to perfection.
897
00:46:56,105 --> 00:46:58,545
And also, that from among
898
00:46:58,546 --> 00:47:00,985
them everywhere clerics
899
00:47:01,026 --> 00:47:02,257
should be ordained
900
00:47:02,258 --> 00:47:03,488
to serve this people,
901
00:47:03,529 --> 00:47:04,864
who have but recently
902
00:47:04,865 --> 00:47:06,198
come to belief.
903
00:47:08,326 --> 00:47:10,933
And again,
904
00:47:10,934 --> 00:47:13,539
"Go into all the world
905
00:47:13,581 --> 00:47:14,916
and preach the gospel
906
00:47:14,917 --> 00:47:16,250
to every creature.
907
00:47:16,292 --> 00:47:19,379
He who believes and is
908
00:47:19,380 --> 00:47:22,465
baptized will be saved.
909
00:47:26,636 --> 00:47:29,389
He who does not believe
910
00:47:29,390 --> 00:47:32,141
will be condemned."
911
00:47:44,195 --> 00:47:45,488
Now go.
912
00:47:50,785 --> 00:47:52,162
Patrick's ministry
913
00:47:52,163 --> 00:47:53,538
was extremely effective.
914
00:47:53,579 --> 00:47:54,997
Each time a new
915
00:47:54,998 --> 00:47:56,415
priest was ordained,
916
00:47:56,457 --> 00:47:58,063
then you had the
917
00:47:58,064 --> 00:47:59,669
center of a community.
918
00:47:59,711 --> 00:48:00,983
He was trying to
919
00:48:00,984 --> 00:48:02,254
create small communities
920
00:48:02,296 --> 00:48:04,215
of Christians because
921
00:48:04,216 --> 00:48:06,133
that is how Christianity
922
00:48:06,175 --> 00:48:08,427
spread through the Roman Empire.
923
00:48:09,846 --> 00:48:11,972
As Patrick's ministry grew,
924
00:48:12,014 --> 00:48:13,057
he trained other clerics
925
00:48:13,058 --> 00:48:14,099
to continue his work
926
00:48:14,141 --> 00:48:15,205
and went on to the
927
00:48:15,206 --> 00:48:16,268
next community.
928
00:48:17,770 --> 00:48:19,689
- As that went on
- year after year after year,
929
00:48:19,731 --> 00:48:20,899
His mission was
930
00:48:20,900 --> 00:48:22,066
extremely successful.
931
00:48:25,486 --> 00:48:27,864
And so it shall be in the
932
00:48:27,865 --> 00:48:30,241
last days, says the Lord,
933
00:48:30,282 --> 00:48:32,910
that I will pour out my
934
00:48:32,911 --> 00:48:35,538
Spirit upon all flesh
935
00:48:35,580 --> 00:48:37,102
and your sons and your
936
00:48:37,103 --> 00:48:38,624
daughters shall prophesy,
937
00:48:40,125 --> 00:48:42,169
and your young men
938
00:48:42,170 --> 00:48:44,213
shall see visions,
939
00:48:44,255 --> 00:48:46,320
and your old men
940
00:48:46,321 --> 00:48:48,384
shall dream dreams;
941
00:48:48,426 --> 00:48:50,887
and indeed, in that
942
00:48:50,888 --> 00:48:53,347
time on my manservants
943
00:48:53,389 --> 00:48:55,683
and my maidservants I
944
00:48:55,684 --> 00:48:57,976
will pour out my Spirit;
945
00:48:58,977 --> 00:49:00,271
and they shall prophesy.
946
00:49:06,527 --> 00:49:08,071
The bread of heaven
947
00:49:08,072 --> 00:49:09,614
in Christ Jesus.
948
00:49:09,655 --> 00:49:11,616
Amen.
949
00:49:11,657 --> 00:49:12,784
How has this
950
00:49:12,785 --> 00:49:13,910
happened in Ireland?
951
00:49:13,950 --> 00:49:16,829
Never before did they know
952
00:49:16,830 --> 00:49:19,707
of God except to serve idols
953
00:49:19,749 --> 00:49:21,125
and unclean things.
954
00:49:24,211 --> 00:49:26,631
Yet recently, what a change.
955
00:49:31,218 --> 00:49:32,449
Christianity was
956
00:49:32,450 --> 00:49:33,679
beginning to take hold.
957
00:49:33,721 --> 00:49:34,764
That's the transformation
958
00:49:34,765 --> 00:49:35,807
he marvels at.
959
00:49:35,848 --> 00:49:37,392
And he's saying, "Listen,
960
00:49:37,393 --> 00:49:38,935
don't believe the evidence
961
00:49:38,975 --> 00:49:40,686
of my word only,
962
00:49:40,687 --> 00:49:42,396
look what's happening."
963
00:49:45,691 --> 00:49:47,318
They have become
964
00:49:47,359 --> 00:49:49,111
a prepared people of the Lord,
965
00:49:49,153 --> 00:49:51,239
and they are now
966
00:49:51,240 --> 00:49:53,324
called sons of God.
967
00:49:53,365 --> 00:49:54,679
And the Irish leaders'
968
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:55,992
sons and daughters
969
00:49:56,034 --> 00:49:58,412
are seen to become the
970
00:49:58,413 --> 00:50:00,790
monks and virgins of Christ.
971
00:50:10,341 --> 00:50:12,176
- But while
- Patrick had great success
972
00:50:12,217 --> 00:50:14,136
Among the pagans in Ireland,
973
00:50:14,137 --> 00:50:16,054
he quickly lost favor
974
00:50:16,096 --> 00:50:17,139
with the Church
975
00:50:17,140 --> 00:50:18,182
back in Britain.
976
00:50:24,647 --> 00:50:26,712
Patrick is preaching the
977
00:50:26,713 --> 00:50:28,776
Gospel in a way very different
978
00:50:28,818 --> 00:50:30,319
to the way other Christians
979
00:50:30,361 --> 00:50:31,633
are preaching
980
00:50:31,634 --> 00:50:32,905
the Gospel in Ireland.
981
00:50:32,947 --> 00:50:34,907
- There were rules
- and stipulations
982
00:50:34,949 --> 00:50:36,534
By the church at the time.
983
00:50:36,575 --> 00:50:38,828
Bishops were not to stray out
984
00:50:38,870 --> 00:50:40,517
beyond their own dioceses or
985
00:50:40,518 --> 00:50:42,164
own areas of responsibility.
986
00:50:42,206 --> 00:50:43,979
In Patrick we see
987
00:50:43,980 --> 00:50:45,751
something different.
988
00:50:45,793 --> 00:50:47,712
- It's also believed
- that Patrick ministered
989
00:50:47,753 --> 00:50:49,046
In the Irish language
990
00:50:49,047 --> 00:50:50,339
instead of Latin
991
00:50:50,381 --> 00:50:51,924
- and established
- many monasteries
992
00:50:51,966 --> 00:50:53,301
For the ordination
993
00:50:53,302 --> 00:50:54,635
of uneducated people.
994
00:50:55,887 --> 00:50:57,096
I mean, who is this
995
00:50:57,097 --> 00:50:58,305
man to do such things?
996
00:50:59,264 --> 00:51:00,725
And who does he think he is?
997
00:51:04,603 --> 00:51:05,688
Patrick's
998
00:51:05,689 --> 00:51:06,772
superiors started digging
999
00:51:06,814 --> 00:51:08,482
for anything they could
1000
00:51:08,483 --> 00:51:10,150
find to discredit him.
1001
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:16,636
On one occasion,
1002
00:51:16,637 --> 00:51:17,992
a blessed Irish woman
1003
00:51:18,034 --> 00:51:20,537
of noble birth whom I had
1004
00:51:20,538 --> 00:51:23,039
baptized came back to us.
1005
00:51:23,831 --> 00:51:25,041
I must see Patrick.
1006
00:51:34,383 --> 00:51:36,010
What brings you here, child?
1007
00:51:37,302 --> 00:51:38,387
I received a divine
1008
00:51:38,388 --> 00:51:39,471
revelation from a messenger
1009
00:51:39,513 --> 00:51:41,453
of God who advised me to
1010
00:51:41,454 --> 00:51:43,392
become a virgin of Christ.
1011
00:51:43,434 --> 00:51:45,352
Thanks be to God.
1012
00:51:45,394 --> 00:51:47,459
If a woman decides to
1013
00:51:47,460 --> 00:51:49,523
become a virgin, a female monk,
1014
00:51:49,565 --> 00:51:51,400
she can only do that with
1015
00:51:51,401 --> 00:51:53,235
the permission of her father.
1016
00:51:53,277 --> 00:51:55,467
They have brought this
1017
00:51:55,468 --> 00:51:57,656
girl up and this girl
1018
00:51:57,698 --> 00:52:00,159
is now no benefit to
1019
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,620
the family at all.
1020
00:52:02,661 --> 00:52:04,496
- This, of
- course, is not to the liking
1021
00:52:04,538 --> 00:52:06,082
Of their fathers and they
1022
00:52:06,083 --> 00:52:07,625
have to suffer persecutions
1023
00:52:07,666 --> 00:52:09,293
and false accusations
1024
00:52:09,294 --> 00:52:10,920
from their parents.
1025
00:52:10,962 --> 00:52:11,984
God has called
1026
00:52:11,985 --> 00:52:13,005
me to serve Him.
1027
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,053
Go home.
1028
00:52:32,316 --> 00:52:33,943
Yet despite this,
1029
00:52:33,985 --> 00:52:36,528
their number keeps increasing.
1030
00:52:43,035 --> 00:52:44,954
- Another
- challenge Patrick faced
1031
00:52:44,996 --> 00:52:46,622
Was protecting his Irish
1032
00:52:46,623 --> 00:52:48,248
converts from slave traders.
1033
00:52:48,290 --> 00:52:49,729
In his second writing,
1034
00:52:49,730 --> 00:52:51,167
the Epistola,
1035
00:52:51,209 --> 00:52:52,878
Patrick responds to the attacks
1036
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:54,526
of a British warlord
1037
00:52:54,527 --> 00:52:56,132
named Coroticus.
1038
00:52:58,258 --> 00:52:59,781
He is a slaver who has
1039
00:52:59,782 --> 00:53:01,303
taken some of the people
1040
00:53:01,345 --> 00:53:02,784
that Patrick has
1041
00:53:02,785 --> 00:53:04,222
converted to Christianity.
1042
00:53:04,264 --> 00:53:06,579
And his men killed many
1043
00:53:06,580 --> 00:53:08,894
people because people
1044
00:53:08,936 --> 00:53:12,356
don't go willingly into slavery.
1045
00:53:23,241 --> 00:53:25,703
They are blood-stained;
1046
00:53:25,744 --> 00:53:27,538
blood-stained with the blood
1047
00:53:27,579 --> 00:53:30,666
of innocent Christians,
1048
00:53:30,708 --> 00:53:32,230
whose numbers I have
1049
00:53:32,231 --> 00:53:33,752
given birth to in God
1050
00:53:33,794 --> 00:53:35,838
and confirmed in Christ.
1051
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:17,818
I sent a letter by a holy
1052
00:54:17,819 --> 00:54:19,715
priest, with clerics,
1053
00:54:19,757 --> 00:54:21,154
to ask that Coroticus
1054
00:54:21,155 --> 00:54:22,551
and his men return to us
1055
00:54:22,593 --> 00:54:24,178
some of the baptized
1056
00:54:24,179 --> 00:54:25,763
prisoners they had captured.
1057
00:54:26,889 --> 00:54:28,224
They scoffed at them.
1058
00:54:30,226 --> 00:54:31,748
The people who
1059
00:54:31,749 --> 00:54:33,269
were responsible for
1060
00:54:30,226 --> 00:54:33,269
the slaughter
1061
00:54:33,311 --> 00:54:34,751
of his newly baptized Christians
1062
00:54:34,752 --> 00:54:36,190
were nominally Christian,
1063
00:54:36,232 --> 00:54:37,692
which gives him the authority
1064
00:54:37,693 --> 00:54:39,151
to excommunicate them,
1065
00:54:39,193 --> 00:54:41,153
- to declare what
- was already true,
1066
00:54:41,195 --> 00:54:42,488
Basically the people who
1067
00:54:42,489 --> 00:54:43,781
are responsible for murder
1068
00:54:43,822 --> 00:54:45,741
- can no longer be
- called Christian.
1069
00:54:45,783 --> 00:54:47,097
Patrick, by
1070
00:54:47,098 --> 00:54:48,410
writing this letter,
1071
00:54:48,452 --> 00:54:49,850
is making a formal
1072
00:54:49,851 --> 00:54:51,247
statement, which says,
1073
00:54:51,287 --> 00:54:53,207
"Coroticus, unless you
1074
00:54:53,208 --> 00:54:55,126
change, you are damned.
1075
00:54:56,668 --> 00:54:58,191
And God will back
1076
00:54:58,192 --> 00:54:59,713
me on this one!"
1077
00:55:01,632 --> 00:55:03,341
The church mourns
1078
00:55:03,383 --> 00:55:04,384
and weeps for its
1079
00:55:04,385 --> 00:55:05,385
sons and daughters
1080
00:55:05,427 --> 00:55:07,596
who were taken away and
1081
00:55:07,597 --> 00:55:09,765
exported to far distant lands,
1082
00:55:09,807 --> 00:55:11,913
where grave sin openly
1083
00:55:11,914 --> 00:55:14,019
flourishes without shame,
1084
00:55:14,061 --> 00:55:15,855
where freeborn people
1085
00:55:15,856 --> 00:55:17,648
have been sold off,
1086
00:55:17,689 --> 00:55:20,692
Christians reduced to slavery.
1087
00:56:12,870 --> 00:56:15,373
I do not know what to say,
1088
00:56:15,374 --> 00:56:17,875
or how I can say any more,
1089
00:56:17,916 --> 00:56:19,793
about the children
1090
00:56:19,794 --> 00:56:21,670
of God who are dead,
1091
00:56:24,215 --> 00:56:25,279
whom the sword has
1092
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:26,342
touched so cruelly.
1093
00:56:29,594 --> 00:56:32,180
All I can do is what is written:
1094
00:56:32,181 --> 00:56:34,766
"Weep with those who weep";
1095
00:56:36,643 --> 00:56:38,833
and again: "If one
1096
00:56:38,834 --> 00:56:41,023
member suffers pain,
1097
00:56:43,067 --> 00:56:44,297
let all the members
1098
00:56:44,298 --> 00:56:45,527
suffer the pain with it."
1099
00:56:56,121 --> 00:56:58,082
The evil of evil people
1100
00:56:58,123 --> 00:57:00,458
has prevailed over us.
1101
00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:02,523
We have been made as if we
1102
00:57:02,524 --> 00:57:04,546
were complete outsiders.
1103
00:57:04,588 --> 00:57:06,841
For them, it is a disgrace
1104
00:57:06,842 --> 00:57:09,093
that we are from Ireland.
1105
00:57:11,678 --> 00:57:13,389
He said, "They hate us
1106
00:57:13,390 --> 00:57:15,099
because we are Irish."
1107
00:57:15,140 --> 00:57:17,268
That's extraordinary.
1108
00:57:17,309 --> 00:57:18,456
That Patrick had come to
1109
00:57:18,457 --> 00:57:19,603
feel himself to be just
1110
00:57:19,644 --> 00:57:21,813
as Irish as his followers.
1111
00:57:25,567 --> 00:57:26,944
Let it be read
1112
00:57:26,945 --> 00:57:28,320
before all the people,
1113
00:57:28,362 --> 00:57:29,864
especially in the presence
1114
00:57:29,865 --> 00:57:31,365
of Coroticus himself.
1115
00:57:34,534 --> 00:57:36,036
God may inspire them to come
1116
00:57:36,037 --> 00:57:37,537
back to their right senses,
1117
00:57:38,914 --> 00:57:40,249
however late it may be.
1118
00:57:44,002 --> 00:57:45,837
- Unfortunately,
- we simply don't know
1119
00:57:45,879 --> 00:57:46,985
If Coroticus returned
1120
00:57:46,986 --> 00:57:48,090
any of the slaves.
1121
00:57:48,132 --> 00:57:49,571
And I think it's probably
1122
00:57:49,572 --> 00:57:51,009
unlikely that he did.
1123
00:57:51,051 --> 00:57:52,157
But simply that is
1124
00:57:52,158 --> 00:57:53,262
something that the sources
1125
00:57:53,304 --> 00:57:55,347
just don't show us.
1126
00:58:06,024 --> 00:58:07,859
I wish
1127
00:58:07,860 --> 00:58:09,694
to leave them to go to Britain.
1128
00:58:09,736 --> 00:58:11,613
I would willingly do this,
1129
00:58:11,614 --> 00:58:13,490
and I am prepared for this,
1130
00:58:13,531 --> 00:58:15,659
as if to visit my home
1131
00:58:15,660 --> 00:58:17,786
country and my parents.
1132
00:58:17,828 --> 00:58:19,059
Not only that, but I
1133
00:58:19,060 --> 00:58:20,289
would like to go to Gaul
1134
00:58:20,331 --> 00:58:21,686
to visit the brothers
1135
00:58:21,687 --> 00:58:23,041
and see the faces
1136
00:58:23,083 --> 00:58:25,961
of the saints of my Lord.
1137
00:58:26,003 --> 00:58:27,984
God knows what I would
1138
00:58:27,985 --> 00:58:29,965
dearly like to do.
1139
00:58:31,633 --> 00:58:33,844
But I am bound in the
1140
00:58:33,845 --> 00:58:36,054
Spirit, who assures me
1141
00:58:36,096 --> 00:58:39,162
that if I were to do this,
1142
00:58:39,163 --> 00:58:42,227
I would be held guilty.
1143
00:58:42,269 --> 00:58:43,979
And I fear, also, to lose
1144
00:58:43,980 --> 00:58:45,689
the work which I began,
1145
00:58:45,730 --> 00:58:48,817
not so much I, but Christ
1146
00:58:48,818 --> 00:58:51,903
the Lord, who told me
1147
00:58:51,945 --> 00:58:53,259
to come here to be
1148
00:58:53,260 --> 00:58:54,572
with these people
1149
00:58:54,614 --> 00:58:56,492
for the rest of my life.
1150
00:59:02,122 --> 00:59:03,561
Tell us this secret
1151
00:59:03,562 --> 00:59:05,000
you know about Patrick.
1152
00:59:06,418 --> 00:59:07,857
Patrick isn't the
1153
00:59:07,858 --> 00:59:09,296
man people think he is.
1154
00:59:12,883 --> 00:59:14,114
He's committed
1155
00:59:14,115 --> 00:59:15,344
unpardonable sins.
1156
00:59:18,972 --> 00:59:20,598
Tell me everything you know.
1157
00:59:27,189 --> 00:59:29,066
- As Patrick's
- mission expanded
1158
00:59:29,107 --> 00:59:30,463
Throughout Ireland,
1159
00:59:30,464 --> 00:59:31,818
he wandered between territories
1160
00:59:31,860 --> 00:59:33,820
owned by different tribes.
1161
00:59:38,534 --> 00:59:40,160
A lot of those tribes
1162
00:59:40,161 --> 00:59:41,786
were at war or at least
1163
00:59:41,828 --> 00:59:43,621
at rivalry with each other.
1164
00:59:43,663 --> 00:59:45,353
The whole country of Ireland
1165
00:59:45,354 --> 00:59:47,042
was certainly not unified.
1166
00:59:50,546 --> 00:59:52,027
Crossing
1167
00:59:52,028 --> 00:59:53,507
territorial boundaries
1168
00:59:50,546 --> 00:59:53,507
was dangerous.
1169
00:59:53,549 --> 00:59:55,113
The only people who were able
1170
00:59:55,114 --> 00:59:56,676
to travel freely were poets,
1171
00:59:56,718 --> 00:59:59,179
tribal leaders and their sons.
1172
01:00:01,014 --> 01:00:02,783
- Patrick talks about
- traveling with the sons
1173
01:00:02,807 --> 01:00:04,434
Of petty kings, probably
1174
01:00:04,435 --> 01:00:06,061
as a kind of bodyguard.
1175
01:00:06,103 --> 01:00:07,229
But also, as people he
1176
01:00:07,230 --> 01:00:08,355
was educating as he moved
1177
01:00:08,397 --> 01:00:09,731
about the countryside.
1178
01:00:12,609 --> 01:00:15,112
Every day there is the chance
1179
01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:17,656
that I will be killed,
1180
01:00:17,657 --> 01:00:20,158
surrounded, or taken
1181
01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:20,158
into slavery,
1182
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:21,910
or some other such happening.
1183
01:01:00,031 --> 01:01:02,618
What brings you back, Roman?
1184
01:01:03,494 --> 01:01:06,163
We come in peace.
1185
01:01:06,204 --> 01:01:07,581
Sometimes I gave presents
1186
01:01:07,582 --> 01:01:08,957
to kings,
1187
01:01:08,999 --> 01:01:10,188
over and above the
1188
01:01:10,189 --> 01:01:11,376
wages I gave their sons
1189
01:01:11,418 --> 01:01:13,753
who traveled with me.
1190
01:01:13,795 --> 01:01:14,963
They're a bit like gangs.
1191
01:01:15,005 --> 01:01:17,007
He has to pay protection money.
1192
01:01:17,048 --> 01:01:19,092
- And of course,
- that is always going to be seen
1193
01:01:19,134 --> 01:01:20,740
As problematic,
1194
01:01:20,741 --> 01:01:22,346
because it's no more than
1195
01:01:22,387 --> 01:01:24,055
greasing the wheels.
1196
01:01:27,892 --> 01:01:29,019
Is this all?
1197
01:01:35,275 --> 01:01:36,818
Take him.
1198
01:01:39,696 --> 01:01:41,198
On that day
1199
01:01:41,239 --> 01:01:43,575
they avidly sought to kill me.
1200
01:01:54,670 --> 01:01:56,213
Enough!
1201
01:01:56,254 --> 01:01:58,340
But the time had not yet come.
1202
01:02:10,561 --> 01:02:13,167
Still they looted us,
1203
01:02:13,168 --> 01:02:15,773
took everything of value,
1204
01:02:15,815 --> 01:02:17,317
and bound me in iron.
1205
01:02:21,154 --> 01:02:22,906
On the 14th day,
1206
01:02:22,907 --> 01:02:24,658
the Lord set me free
1207
01:02:24,700 --> 01:02:26,869
from their power; all our
1208
01:02:26,870 --> 01:02:29,037
possessions were returned
1209
01:02:29,079 --> 01:02:31,122
to us for God's sake
1210
01:02:31,164 --> 01:02:33,229
and for the sake of the close
1211
01:02:33,230 --> 01:02:35,293
friendship we had previously.
1212
01:02:43,093 --> 01:02:45,095
This is who we
1213
01:02:45,096 --> 01:02:47,097
confess and adore,
1214
01:02:47,138 --> 01:02:48,953
One God in
1215
01:02:48,954 --> 01:02:50,767
Trinity of sacred name.
1216
01:02:50,808 --> 01:02:52,269
Amen.
1217
01:02:53,562 --> 01:02:55,188
- He'd make
- a congregation.
1218
01:02:55,230 --> 01:02:56,790
- He'd go to the next
- little place where
1219
01:02:56,814 --> 01:02:57,941
They didn't
1220
01:02:57,942 --> 01:02:59,067
like the look of him,
1221
01:02:59,109 --> 01:03:00,670
- and the same thing would
- happen all over again.
1222
01:03:00,694 --> 01:03:02,153
So he's imprisoned many times.
1223
01:03:05,907 --> 01:03:07,743
- Patrick
- also had to strike deals
1224
01:03:07,784 --> 01:03:09,724
With a group of people
1225
01:03:09,725 --> 01:03:11,663
he calls judges.
1226
01:03:11,705 --> 01:03:13,373
- Patrick,
- very interestingly,
1227
01:03:13,415 --> 01:03:14,500
Does not say
1228
01:03:14,501 --> 01:03:15,584
who the judges are.
1229
01:03:15,626 --> 01:03:16,814
I think he's making
1230
01:03:16,815 --> 01:03:18,002
deals with local druids,
1231
01:03:18,044 --> 01:03:19,171
that he's asking
1232
01:03:19,172 --> 01:03:20,297
them for safe passage
1233
01:03:20,338 --> 01:03:22,173
through their territories.
1234
01:03:22,215 --> 01:03:23,901
- He's probably asking
- them for permission
1235
01:03:23,925 --> 01:03:25,510
To engage in preaching.
1236
01:03:29,180 --> 01:03:31,015
- The druids
- were a powerful force
1237
01:03:31,057 --> 01:03:32,643
In fifth century Ireland.
1238
01:03:32,684 --> 01:03:34,311
These Celtic religious leaders
1239
01:03:34,352 --> 01:03:36,187
were part of a pagan priesthood
1240
01:03:36,229 --> 01:03:37,731
that supervised sacred rites,
1241
01:03:37,732 --> 01:03:39,232
presided over public
1242
01:03:39,274 --> 01:03:41,276
and private disputes,
1243
01:03:41,277 --> 01:03:43,278
and were said to be prophets.
1244
01:03:45,155 --> 01:03:46,177
I suppose they would
1245
01:03:46,178 --> 01:03:47,198
have been the people
1246
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:48,950
- that Patrick would
- have been facing.
1247
01:03:48,992 --> 01:03:50,723
They would have been the rivals
1248
01:03:50,724 --> 01:03:52,454
to Patrick's new ministry.
1249
01:03:55,290 --> 01:03:56,500
You do get the impression
1250
01:03:56,541 --> 01:03:58,293
- that there must have
- been many clashes.
1251
01:04:07,719 --> 01:04:09,137
Legend has it
1252
01:04:09,138 --> 01:04:10,555
that such a clash happened
1253
01:04:10,597 --> 01:04:12,516
on the Hill of Slane.
1254
01:04:12,557 --> 01:04:13,850
Patrick's seventh century
1255
01:04:13,851 --> 01:04:15,143
biographer MuirchĂș
1256
01:04:15,185 --> 01:04:17,479
tells how Patrick opposed the
1257
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:19,773
druids, and defied a king.
1258
01:04:23,694 --> 01:04:24,966
They held
1259
01:04:24,967 --> 01:04:26,237
and celebrated their
1260
01:04:23,694 --> 01:04:26,237
pagan feast
1261
01:04:26,279 --> 01:04:28,532
on the same night on which
1262
01:04:28,533 --> 01:04:30,784
holy Patrick celebrated Easter.
1263
01:04:30,826 --> 01:04:32,390
They also had a custom, which
1264
01:04:32,391 --> 01:04:33,953
was announced to all publicly,
1265
01:04:33,995 --> 01:04:35,747
that whoever lit a fire on
1266
01:04:35,748 --> 01:04:37,499
that night before it was lit
1267
01:04:37,541 --> 01:04:39,606
in the king's house,
1268
01:04:39,607 --> 01:04:41,670
would have forfeited his life.
1269
01:04:53,515 --> 01:04:54,641
It shone in the
1270
01:04:54,642 --> 01:04:55,767
night and it was seen
1271
01:04:55,809 --> 01:04:57,790
by almost all of the people
1272
01:04:57,791 --> 01:04:59,771
who lived in the plain,
1273
01:04:59,813 --> 01:05:01,669
and as they saw it they all
1274
01:05:01,670 --> 01:05:03,525
gazed at it and wondered.
1275
01:05:20,751 --> 01:05:22,440
Who is the man who has dared
1276
01:05:22,441 --> 01:05:24,128
to do such a wicked thing
1277
01:05:24,170 --> 01:05:25,505
in my kingdom?
1278
01:05:28,466 --> 01:05:29,572
We do not know
1279
01:05:29,573 --> 01:05:30,677
who has done this,
1280
01:05:32,303 --> 01:05:35,265
King, may you live forever!
1281
01:05:37,100 --> 01:05:38,602
Unless this fire which
1282
01:05:38,603 --> 01:05:40,103
we see is extinguished
1283
01:05:40,144 --> 01:05:41,914
- on this same night on
- which it has been lit,
1284
01:05:41,938 --> 01:05:43,169
Then it will never be
1285
01:05:43,170 --> 01:05:44,399
extinguished at all
1286
01:05:46,109 --> 01:05:48,048
and it will spread
1287
01:05:48,049 --> 01:05:49,987
over the whole country
1288
01:05:50,029 --> 01:05:51,844
and it will reign
1289
01:05:51,845 --> 01:05:53,658
in all eternity.
1290
01:05:58,996 --> 01:06:00,916
It's a prophecy
1291
01:06:00,957 --> 01:06:02,355
that the light of
1292
01:06:02,356 --> 01:06:03,752
Christianity triumphs
1293
01:06:03,794 --> 01:06:05,879
over every evil,
1294
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:07,964
over every secular authority.
1295
01:06:08,005 --> 01:06:09,257
And the fire would
1296
01:06:09,258 --> 01:06:10,508
never go out.
1297
01:06:21,394 --> 01:06:22,708
I think we should
1298
01:06:22,709 --> 01:06:24,021
continue to move northwest
1299
01:06:24,063 --> 01:06:25,607
and eventually be able
1300
01:06:25,608 --> 01:06:27,150
to split up and cross
1301
01:06:27,191 --> 01:06:28,401
into higher country.
1302
01:06:33,323 --> 01:06:35,116
My dear friends.
1303
01:06:35,158 --> 01:06:36,827
Such a surprise to see you.
1304
01:06:39,329 --> 01:06:41,122
They came and put my sins
1305
01:06:41,164 --> 01:06:42,749
against my hard
1306
01:06:42,750 --> 01:06:44,334
work as a bishop.
1307
01:06:44,375 --> 01:06:45,376
The charge they
1308
01:06:45,377 --> 01:06:46,377
brought against me
1309
01:06:46,419 --> 01:06:47,942
was something from
1310
01:06:47,943 --> 01:06:49,464
30 years earlier,
1311
01:06:49,506 --> 01:06:51,404
which I had admitted
1312
01:06:51,405 --> 01:06:53,301
before I was even a deacon.
1313
01:06:53,343 --> 01:06:54,845
I am a sinner.
1314
01:06:54,886 --> 01:06:56,721
- Patrick isn't the
- man people think he is.
1315
01:06:56,763 --> 01:06:58,157
- I must
- confess what I have done.
1316
01:06:58,181 --> 01:06:59,492
- He's committed
- unpardonable sins.
1317
01:06:59,516 --> 01:07:00,642
- Am I ever
- to be forgiven?
1318
01:07:00,684 --> 01:07:02,059
Tell me everything you know.
1319
01:07:04,980 --> 01:07:06,523
This friend of his
1320
01:07:06,564 --> 01:07:08,483
disclosed the sin of Patrick
1321
01:07:08,525 --> 01:07:10,590
and that this has been
1322
01:07:10,591 --> 01:07:12,654
used to discredit him.
1323
01:07:21,830 --> 01:07:24,123
This hit me very hard,
1324
01:07:24,165 --> 01:07:25,917
so much so that it seemed
1325
01:07:25,918 --> 01:07:27,669
I was about to fall,
1326
01:07:27,711 --> 01:07:30,296
both here and in eternity.
1327
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,117
I am very sorry for
1328
01:07:59,118 --> 01:08:00,994
my dearest friend,
1329
01:08:03,329 --> 01:08:07,542
to whom I trusted even my soul.
1330
01:08:19,470 --> 01:08:21,660
That same night I saw in a
1331
01:08:21,661 --> 01:08:23,850
vision some writing before
1332
01:08:19,470 --> 01:08:23,850
my dishonored face.
1333
01:08:25,602 --> 01:08:26,603
We have seen
1334
01:08:26,604 --> 01:08:27,604
with anger the face
1335
01:08:27,645 --> 01:08:29,335
of our chosen one with his
1336
01:08:29,336 --> 01:08:31,024
name laid bare of respect.
1337
01:08:37,154 --> 01:08:38,406
God did not say,
1338
01:08:38,448 --> 01:08:40,241
you have seen with anger,
1339
01:08:40,283 --> 01:08:42,056
but "we have seen
1340
01:08:42,057 --> 01:08:43,828
with anger" as if
1341
01:08:43,870 --> 01:08:45,267
in this matter He
1342
01:08:45,268 --> 01:08:46,664
were joined to me.
1343
01:08:53,588 --> 01:08:55,172
Patrick,
1344
01:08:57,092 --> 01:08:58,301
the boat is ready,
1345
01:08:59,176 --> 01:09:00,511
and it's time to go.
1346
01:09:12,231 --> 01:09:14,109
I am not finished.
1347
01:09:30,125 --> 01:09:31,375
Damn him!
1348
01:09:35,171 --> 01:09:38,049
He powerfully came to my aid
1349
01:09:38,091 --> 01:09:41,156
in this battering so
1350
01:09:41,157 --> 01:09:44,221
that I did not slip badly
1351
01:09:44,263 --> 01:09:46,391
into the wreckage of
1352
01:09:46,392 --> 01:09:48,518
sin and into infamy.
1353
01:09:52,730 --> 01:09:54,231
I pray God
1354
01:09:56,233 --> 01:09:59,716
that it may not be charged
1355
01:09:59,717 --> 01:10:03,199
against them as sin.
1356
01:10:05,743 --> 01:10:07,411
Amen.
1357
01:10:19,007 --> 01:10:20,884
- As
- Patrick got older,
1358
01:10:20,925 --> 01:10:22,281
Criticism of his mission
1359
01:10:22,282 --> 01:10:23,636
and methods had only grown,
1360
01:10:23,678 --> 01:10:25,513
which prompted him to
1361
01:10:25,514 --> 01:10:27,348
write the Confessio.
1362
01:10:31,061 --> 01:10:33,104
- Maybe when
- I baptized all those thousands,
1363
01:10:33,146 --> 01:10:34,793
I hoped to get even half
1364
01:10:34,794 --> 01:10:36,440
a penny from one of them?
1365
01:10:36,482 --> 01:10:38,672
Tell me and I will
1366
01:10:38,673 --> 01:10:40,862
return it to you!
1367
01:10:40,904 --> 01:10:42,280
Or when the Lord ordained
1368
01:10:42,281 --> 01:10:43,656
clergy everywhere through me
1369
01:10:43,698 --> 01:10:46,743
as his mediocre instrument,
1370
01:10:46,744 --> 01:10:49,787
and I gave my ministry
1371
01:10:49,829 --> 01:10:51,268
to them for free,
1372
01:10:51,269 --> 01:10:52,707
did I even charge them
1373
01:10:52,749 --> 01:10:56,127
the cost of my shoes?
1374
01:10:56,169 --> 01:10:58,651
Tell it against me and I will
1375
01:10:58,652 --> 01:11:01,132
all the more return it to you!
1376
01:11:06,262 --> 01:11:07,597
He scrupulously
1377
01:11:07,598 --> 01:11:08,932
defends himself saying
1378
01:11:08,973 --> 01:11:11,308
that his motives and his reasons
1379
01:11:11,350 --> 01:11:12,935
for his presence in Ireland,
1380
01:11:12,936 --> 01:11:14,520
for his return to Ireland
1381
01:11:14,562 --> 01:11:15,626
was nothing except
1382
01:11:15,627 --> 01:11:16,689
that the Irish would come
1383
01:11:16,731 --> 01:11:18,170
to know Christ and come to
1384
01:11:18,171 --> 01:11:19,609
know the Father as he did.
1385
01:11:23,529 --> 01:11:24,551
It's
1386
01:11:24,552 --> 01:11:25,573
believed that Patrick
1387
01:11:25,615 --> 01:11:26,908
was ordered to give up his
1388
01:11:26,909 --> 01:11:28,201
mission and return to Britain.
1389
01:11:30,078 --> 01:11:31,225
Patrick
1390
01:11:31,226 --> 01:11:32,371
faces this question,
1391
01:11:32,413 --> 01:11:34,540
"If I'm not accepted by the
1392
01:11:34,541 --> 01:11:36,667
hierarchy of the British
1393
01:11:32,413 --> 01:11:36,667
Church,
1394
01:11:36,709 --> 01:11:38,690
is my mission something
1395
01:11:38,691 --> 01:11:40,671
which is acceptable?"
1396
01:11:45,218 --> 01:11:46,741
His ultimate line of
1397
01:11:46,742 --> 01:11:48,263
defense is to say,
1398
01:11:48,304 --> 01:11:49,451
"I'm carrying on
1399
01:11:49,452 --> 01:11:50,598
with my mission.
1400
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:51,662
I'm not going to
1401
01:11:51,663 --> 01:11:52,683
go back to Britain
1402
01:11:52,725 --> 01:11:53,810
because I have been chosen
1403
01:11:53,811 --> 01:11:54,894
to be a bishop by God."
1404
01:12:03,569 --> 01:12:05,196
Patrick went AWOL.
1405
01:12:06,447 --> 01:12:08,095
And we just don't know
1406
01:12:08,096 --> 01:12:09,742
how that all panned out.
1407
01:12:10,952 --> 01:12:12,328
He said that he wanted
1408
01:12:12,329 --> 01:12:13,704
to spend the rest
1409
01:12:13,746 --> 01:12:15,707
of his life in Ireland because
1410
01:12:15,708 --> 01:12:17,667
that's what God demanded.
1411
01:12:17,708 --> 01:12:19,502
Therefore, we've got to guess
1412
01:12:19,503 --> 01:12:21,296
that he never did go back.
1413
01:12:23,089 --> 01:12:24,695
I pray that
1414
01:12:24,696 --> 01:12:26,301
God give me perseverance,
1415
01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:27,906
and that he grant me to
1416
01:12:27,907 --> 01:12:29,470
bear faithful witness
1417
01:12:29,512 --> 01:12:31,765
to Him right up to my
1418
01:12:31,766 --> 01:12:34,017
passing from this life,
1419
01:12:34,058 --> 01:12:36,811
for the sake of my God.
1420
01:12:40,773 --> 01:12:42,150
- Patrick
- died sometime
1421
01:12:42,192 --> 01:12:44,235
In the late fifth century.
1422
01:12:44,277 --> 01:12:45,507
The exact date, location,
1423
01:12:45,508 --> 01:12:46,737
and circumstances
1424
01:12:46,779 --> 01:12:48,823
of his death are unknown.
1425
01:12:51,201 --> 01:12:52,473
Later traditions claimed
1426
01:12:52,474 --> 01:12:53,744
that he died of old age
1427
01:12:53,786 --> 01:12:56,956
on March 17th, AD 461
1428
01:12:56,998 --> 01:12:58,270
and was buried in
1429
01:12:58,271 --> 01:12:59,542
Saul, Northern Ireland.
1430
01:13:00,584 --> 01:13:02,837
Nearby at Down Cathedral,
1431
01:13:02,879 --> 01:13:05,069
this granite slab marks the
1432
01:13:05,070 --> 01:13:07,258
traditional spot of his burial.
1433
01:13:18,435 --> 01:13:20,437
Not long after Patrick's death,
1434
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:22,106
the Roman Empire fell,
1435
01:13:22,107 --> 01:13:23,733
and Western Europe drifted
1436
01:13:23,774 --> 01:13:25,776
into the Dark Ages.
1437
01:13:25,818 --> 01:13:27,153
But Patrick's work
1438
01:13:27,154 --> 01:13:28,487
was not in vain.
1439
01:13:32,033 --> 01:13:33,118
As Christianity
1440
01:13:33,119 --> 01:13:34,202
established itself,
1441
01:13:34,244 --> 01:13:35,912
as it became more
1442
01:13:35,913 --> 01:13:37,580
vibrant, it became known
1443
01:13:37,621 --> 01:13:38,936
as the Land of Saints and
1444
01:13:38,937 --> 01:13:40,250
Scholars, and that led,
1445
01:13:40,291 --> 01:13:42,085
in turn, to a whole
1446
01:13:42,086 --> 01:13:43,878
proliferation of
1447
01:13:40,291 --> 01:13:43,878
Christian missionaries
1448
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:45,713
leaving Ireland and
1449
01:13:45,714 --> 01:13:47,506
flooding continental Europe.
1450
01:13:51,427 --> 01:13:52,616
Patrick's story began
1451
01:13:52,617 --> 01:13:53,804
a chain of events
1452
01:13:53,846 --> 01:13:55,619
that is quite remarkable
1453
01:13:55,620 --> 01:13:57,392
in the impact that it had.
1454
01:14:01,187 --> 01:14:02,188
He wore out many
1455
01:14:02,189 --> 01:14:03,189
more pairs of sandals
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01:14:03,231 --> 01:14:05,608
in death than he did in life.
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01:14:05,649 --> 01:14:06,776
And he's still going,
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01:14:06,777 --> 01:14:07,902
people are still reading
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01:14:05,649 --> 01:14:07,902
his Confession
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01:14:07,944 --> 01:14:09,299
and still being
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01:14:09,300 --> 01:14:10,654
interested in Christianity
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01:14:10,696 --> 01:14:11,718
because he wrote
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01:14:11,719 --> 01:14:12,740
his message down.
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01:14:24,961 --> 01:14:26,609
I pray
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01:14:26,610 --> 01:14:28,256
for those who believe in
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01:14:28,298 --> 01:14:31,968
and have reverence for God.
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01:14:32,009 --> 01:14:34,199
Some of them may come upon
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01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:36,389
this writing which Patrick,
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01:14:36,431 --> 01:14:39,934
a sinner, wrote in Ireland.
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01:14:39,976 --> 01:14:41,728
May none of them ever say
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01:14:41,729 --> 01:14:43,479
that whatever little I did
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01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:46,294
or made known to please God
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01:14:46,295 --> 01:14:49,068
was done through ignorance.
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01:14:49,110 --> 01:14:51,383
Instead, you can judge
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01:14:51,384 --> 01:14:53,656
and believe in all truth
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01:14:53,697 --> 01:14:57,910
that it was a gift of God.
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01:14:59,745 --> 01:15:01,977
This is my confession
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01:15:01,978 --> 01:15:04,208
before I die.
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01:15:05,305 --> 01:15:11,337
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