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    Feb 20, 2010, 12:57 PM
    What is the history and the legends about St Patrick?
    I am very much interested in learning the real history and about any legends about Saint Patrick.
    As example, one of the legends is this.
    Saint Patrick had a sword which could cut and heal but would not draw blood.
    When the saint was praying for a sick or injured person he would stab the sword into the grown till the visible parts appeared to be a cross and he would them pray to God for healing.
    Where ever the saint did this shamrocks would grow.
    That is why shamrock still grow in many places in Ireland.
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    Do you know of an
    Y others?
    What is the real history of Saint Patrick?
    :)Peace and kindness,:)
    Fred
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    Feb 20, 2010, 02:30 PM

    There is lots in Google about St. Patrick, but mostly he is known for driving the snakes out of Ireland.

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    Feb 20, 2010, 04:05 PM

    tickle,
    Es I can look at Google and I have, but I'm interested in what folks here have to say.
    Peace and kindness,
    Fred
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    Feb 20, 2010, 05:05 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by arcura View Post
    tickle,
    es I can look at google and I have, but I'm interested in what folks here have to say.
    Peace and kindness,
    Fred
    Hi acura, you have heard what one long time member has to say. We scottish are a little bit scewed on irish legends, because they say that's where the bagpipes came from. They immigrated from Ireland, not so.

    As a scot I am not entirely interested in St. Patrick, although they say he landed in Scotland first.

    Why are you not interested in Google information regarding St.Pat ? It has all been accumulated over the years.

    Tick:p
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    Feb 20, 2010, 07:13 PM

    tickle,
    I AM interested in the Google information.
    I have it handy.
    What I want, as I said before, that which others here may have in addition to that.
    Peace and kindness,
    Fred.
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    Mar 24, 2010, 12:14 PM

    As history records patrick was a brit. He was apprenticed to a Irish sheepman,and suffered much violence by his hand. He escaped the Island and returned to Briton where he sought sanctuary in a monastery. He later received a call of God to become a missionary in the land of his captivity. As to the snake legend, it was never the beat of the drum which forced them off the Island,but that he fasted and prayed for 40 days and nights.
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    Mar 30, 2010, 10:50 PM

    belovedgift,
    Thanks for you post on that.
    Peace and kindness,'
    Fred
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