Weather Vane (1947-03-13) Vol. 7 No. 21

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GOWEOI SAINT
THE GREEN DAY
Maxjy traditions have ^rown tip about the
life of St. Patrick. While preaching at' Tara
in an effort to explain to the Irish people
the mystery of the ’Trinity, h 0 plucked a
shamrock and said that the three leaves re­presented
the three persons of the Trinity
and that the stem on which they grew repre­sented
the Godhead, the unity of three in
one.
Thus the shamrock became Ireland's iiflt-ional
emblem. It is usually connected Tilth
the '»hite ’lover-with its 3 troll known leaf-le
ts Irish Green.15
Another interesting legend is told hm
he banished toads and snakes out of Irelard.
In answer t o t h e prayers of tha saint ba
charmed the snakes and toads by his music and
led them to the sea, where they all drowned.
As yet Ireland is not pestered with these
animals. Confounding his enemies once he
brought down darkness upon them.
The whole tale of this saint's achieve­ments
in Iroland is one of those to become
luminous and half magical, to take on all the
rosy hues of a myth. ! .
— Grace Oj-oss
Ssinte and cowboys usually belong t o
different classes. At least the cowboys from
the West, vhrn the West was yound and' wild,
were not catalogued as saints. On March 17th
via commemorate the work of a Scotch cowboy
saint. Sukhat, Patricius, or the man we know
£■3 Ssdnt Patrick died on iiarch 1?, h93*
He was a saint while a cowboy, and while
a cowboy, got a vis.ion which made him a great
missionary. As a boy of sixteen he was cap­tured
by Irish marauders and sold as a slave
to an Irish chieftain. F o r six years be
tended the cattle of this heathen chieftain,
than escaped, Sire years in Ireland taught
him the Celtic language and gave him a vision
of lost souls0
Commissioned by the Pope to do work in
Ireland, he returned to his former master,
paid the price of his freedom, tried to con­vert
the old roan, and m s driven off. H e
“broke tlie ieeB one night while he was get­ting
supper on a hillside. It was the middle
of March and the Druids were celebrating the
return of the sun. Ho fire was to be built
before the priest had kindled his. He crawl­ed
throng M s death sentence tlirough the
providence of God, his own tact, and peaceful
attitudes. He was invited to preach before
the entire royal assembly,
* On March 1?, '13h'( the old Scotch saint
will have.spent 1U5U years resting under the
"ould Irish sod,"
— Alvin Jantsl
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