Saint Patrick

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 33, 20 March 1884, Page 3

Saint Patrick

F. J. F. Duncan iri the Detroit Fr c Press writes: — Concerning the nativity of st. Patrick, t had the curiosity to search ior information on this point, and I find in a work called the " Lives.of the flints" a notice of tho jsaint compiled chiefly from his own ! confession. .He «ay« that he whs born a' a village called 1.-navn abormae v 'which seem* to be th* site of -the pre.se:it Kilpatrick on eh > banks of the River Clyde between Dumbarton and Glasgow). He calls himself Briton ami a liuman, or ot a mixed extraction, and Itis lather was of a .good family by the name of Calphuruius and a denizen oi a neigh boring city of the Romans. I further find stated in --Wilson's " Archaeology ami Pre-hi_ttoric Annals of S otland," published 1851, " Christianity had already gained some partiil footing in Ireland, prior to the apostolic wissii.ii of St. Patrick, who wa* co; secratei for that purpose by Pope Celestioe A . D. 43*1. Both the parentage and the country of the j Irish apostle have been made the subject oi r-ceut controversy, but according to the most commonly accepted history, tho little Village of Kilpatrick on the north bank of the Clyde, betwe«n Glasgow aud Dumbarton, claims the honor of having given birth to the patron saint of Ireland " Another authority, the Gazetteer of Scotland, published by Fuilarton & (Jo., to which I referred ii, also claimed he was born in K Ipatrick Judging from the fact that the work, •'Lives of the Saints," has been i compiled and published with the concurrence of the Koman Catholic Church, that would, in a great measure, j?ivt weight to the fact that St. Patrick was born in Scotland, the North Britain of the period.