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V - VII 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 1'. — f TfJTOSW-
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Title | Weather Vane (1947-03-13) Vol. 7 No. 21 |
Creator | Weather Vane staff |
Contributor | Eastern Mennonite University |
Publisher | Eastern Mennonite University Digital Archives |
Date | 1947-03-13 |
Language | eng |
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Text | V - VII 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 1'. — f TfJTOSW- |
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