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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20488, 5 March 1932, Page 8

Downpatrick, the old-world town' in County Down, where Ireland's patron saint was buried, will be more than ever the Mecca oi pilgrims from all parts of the earth wlien a plan for a memorial, which should appeal to the imagination of all lovers of Ireland, has been brought to fruition. On the spot on which St. Patrick's first church stood 1500 years ago an imposing memorial to the wonderful work of St. Patrick in Ireland is to be erected. The present parish church ,of Saul is to be razed, and on .the site a beautiful church in the ancient Irish style will be erected. The' Apostle*, of Ireland first set foot on Irish soil in 432 A.D., as" a Christian missionary at Saul, on the shores' of Strangford Lough, and his body rests inside the precincts of Down Cathedral. The original church which he founded at Saul destroyed by Danes.. On two later occasions-it was again destroyed. The building now to be. removed, was erected . 150 years ago. There has been a sacred building on this, site since the days of the patron saint, and the new memorial building, to which Irishmen in all parts of the world will be asked to subscribe, will perpetuate this tradition. ;