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Saint Patrick’s Purgatory: a fresco in Todi, Italy

Medievalists.net — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 01:08:37 +0000

This essay deals with the tradition of the revelation of Purgatory to St. Patrick on Station Island in Lough Derg, whose popularity is testified not only in literary texts in the various languages of Medieval Europe but also in a unique work of art in the convent of the Sisters of Saint Clair at Todi, Umbria

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St. Patrick’s Irish Pride

Medievalists.net — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:41:11 +0000

In honour of the day, it seems fitting to throw out some interesting facts about St. Patrick, Ireland’s patron saint.

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The History of Saint Patrick – a Short Story

Medievalists.net — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:24:49 +0000

St. Patrick was born, not in Ireland, but in Britian around AD 387. Well, actually, he wasn't called St. Patrick at the time, or even Patrick, but was referred to as Maewyn Succat.

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The Legend of the Purgatory of Saint Patrick: From Ireland to Dante and Beyond

Medievalists.net — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:21:27 +0000

“Yes by Saint Patrick .... Touching this vision here It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you” (Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5)

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Medieval Food – Come Dine with St. Patrick

Medievalists.net — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:05:57 +0000

Ireland in the 5th century: No restaurants, no take-aways, no street vendors or pre-prepared meals.

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Saint Patrick and the Druids: A Window into Seventh-Century Irish Church Politics

Medievalists.net — Thu, 31 May 2012 22:37:08 +0000

Through an analysis of selected portions of Muirchú’s Life of Saint Patrick, this thesis will attempt to search out the hagiographer’s goals in writing as he did under the direction of Aed, Bishop of Sletty, during a critical time of debate in the Irish church. The primary method of accomplishing this will be through consideration of Patrick as a character in the hagiography.

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Was St Patrick a slave-trading Roman official who fled to Ireland?

Medievalists.net — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:46:35 +0000

With St Patrick's Day upon us, a new study asks whether the saint fled his native Britain to escape a career as a Roman tax collector, only to arrive in Ireland and sell slaves.

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The Conversion to Christianity in Medieval Ireland: St. Patrick vs. St. Bridget

Medievalists.net — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 23:02:50 +0000

Both St. Bridget and St. Patrick are patron saints of Ireland, but each had very different methods of converting people to Christianity from paganism during medieval times in Ireland.

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The Culture Shock of St Patrick

Medievalists.net — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:31:25 +0000

This article will shed new light on the Confession of St Patrick by examining it through the prism of the culture shock model.

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HAPPY ST.PATRICK’S DAY: Books on all things Irish! Sláinte!

Medievalists.net — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:17:09 +0000

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with these great reads and some green beer!

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