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Hey Hypocrite, this is off topic and slanderous to your ward members.moksha wrote:I would like to wish everyone a happy Enish-go-on-dosh, and that is no Obliblish!
- O'Moksha
A Collection of British Legends wrote:St. Patrick & the Snakes (Carlisle, Cumberland)
Patrick, when a boy, was seized by pirates from his home near Carlisle and sold into bondage to an Irish chieftain. He escaped, and at length reached the Continent, where eventually he was ordained a bishop. Later he returned to the land of his former captivity, and by his preaching converted the Irish to Christianity. Legend says at that time the country was oppressed by great serpents and a host of loathsome, poisonous reptiles. Endowed with miraculous power, St. Patrick drove every snake from the land into that unfathomed pool, amid the Kerry Hills, from whence only the Last Trumpet may release them.
Sam Harris wrote:Happy St. Patrick's Day. Anyone who pinches me for not wearing green will be promptly bitten.
Boaz & Lidia wrote: Hey Hypocrite, this is off topic and slanderous to your ward members.
ummm cun I git a Mod in here pwease?
Dr. Shades wrote:Take this with a HUGE grain of salt, but I heard or read somewhere that "snakes" was once a derogatory term for "Druids." So when St. Patrick is said to have driven the snakes from Ireland, it actually means that he drove the Druids out, either by converting them or exterminating them.
Once again, I'm not wedded to that explanation, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Dunning's Cyberpub wrote:We know from the historical experts that there were never any snakes in Ireland so our Saint never did have to expel them. But what Patrick dealt with, and caused him so much trouble (i.e. “the black birds which were so troublesome to him on the summit of the mountain”) was the darkness of a people steeped in paganism and heathen worship.
“For the sun is that which we see rising daily at His command, but it will never reign, nor will its splendor last forever. And all those who worship it will be subject to grievous punishment. We, however, worship the true sun, Christ, who will never perish. Nor will those who do His bidding, but the will continue forever just as Christ will continue forever, He Who reigns with God the Father Almighty and with the Holy Spirit before time and now and in eternity, Amen.”(St Patrick’s Confession)