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Old March 7th 15, 11:26 PM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
Richard Henry
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Default T. Patrick was not Irish

On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 10:44:38 AM UTC-8, wrote:
This is the time of the year when I remind everyone that Saint Patrick
was not Irish, he was Roman.



Two Latin letters survive which are generally accepted to have been
written by Patrick. These are the Declaration (Latin: Confessio) and
the Letter to the soldiers of Coroticus (Latin: Epistola). The
Declaration is the more important of the two. In it Patrick gives a
short account of his life and his mission. His parents were
Calphurnius and Conchessa. The former belonged to a Roman family of
high rank and held the office of decurio in Gaul or Britain. Conchessa
was a near relative of the great patron of Gaul, St Martin of Tours.
In or about his sixteenth year, Patrick was carried into captivity by
marauders and was sold as a slave to an Irish chieftan named Milchu in
Dalriada, an area in present-day county Antrim.

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And St. Nicholas was Turkish.

But the Easter Bunny is full-blooded American.

At least the chocolate ones are.
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