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March 17 at 6:43 AM  · The Story of St. Patrick from History of the Scottish nation by Dr. J.A. Rylie PART Three of Three

Patrick received his Divine Commission, not from the Seven Hills, but from the Mount of Olives. Attended by a few companions and humble men like himself, he crossed the sea and arrived in Ireland. He was now just 30 years of age. The story of St. Patrick is so much like the story of Joseph in the Book of Genesis. Both were sold into slavery as teenagers. Both were given special dreams and both began their ministry at about 30. Joseph fed Egypt with bread; Patrick fed Ireland with the living bread; both were a great blessing to the whole world!

(He arrived around AD 405.) All the medieval writers of his life, save the very earliest, and even his modern biographers, date his arrival in Ireland 27 years later, making it fall about 432. The reason for this is that Celestine, Bishop of Rome, sent a bishop named Palladius to Ireland about the year 431. The monkish biographers of Patrick had Palladius on their hands, and being careful of his honor, and his master in Rome, they adjusted the mission of Patrick so as to harmonize with the missions of Palladius. It was to the converts of Patrick that Palladius was sent to Bishop.

Patrick’s first sermon was preached in a barn! The use of this humble edifice was granted to him by the chief of the district, whom. The legend says, was his former master Milchu. In later years a church was built on the site where Patrick began his ministry and won his first converts to Christ. It was called Sabhal Padriuc, that is Patrick’s Barn. It faced north to south. It never dawned on Patrick that a church had to face east to west for the sacraments to be effective. ( I personally believe is an comment “an RCC superstition” Tom)

Thomas E. Kresal – Excerpt from The Collegiate Baptist Workbook by James R. Beller, pg. 68-69

NOTE: J.A. Rylie, Scottish Presbyterian Minister “History of Protestantism” 1878

The image is the ruin of Slane Abbey on the Hill of Slane, Ireland where Saint Patrick infamously lit his bonfire during the pagan festival of Ostara, directly opposite the Hill of Tara.