Ireland An Expansion Through

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Zoroastrian dualism, and some of the quiet refinements of Buddhism. (49)”. Although this would not satisfy his intellectual hunger and he would move onto studying the works of Plato and Socrates. In the end though he would come across the letters of a Jew named Paul who would show him the light of the Christian god. Thus, he would purify his soul, absolve his past sins, and “ submit himself to the death of the flesh through baptism-and to the Christian God. (58)”

At this same time 4th Century Ireland was not as nearly educated as Augustine of that time was. Ireland was a barbaric nation, which in essence paralleled the famous epic poem Beowulf. It was a society in which wealth determined the ruling factor and histories were kept in the way of the oral tradition. Through stories such as Tain Bo Cuailnge, The Cattle Raid of Cooley, one is shown what Ireland might have been like and through heroes such as Deirdre and Cuchulainn one can idealize what the Irish pagan ways ...

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not be until Patrick came along that Ireland would resemble that of a higher society.

Patrick was brought to Ireland as a slave of an Irish king. As a respite from the pain and hunger he felt on a daily basis he turned to the god of his upbringing and through the Christian God he found his calling. He eventually escaped on a boat and managed to make his way back to England where he couldn’t get Ireland out of his mind and in his dreams he envisions himself as “VOX HIBERNACTIUM, The Voice of the Irish. (105)” He then travels to Gaul and starts a theological education in which he is ordained a priest and a bishop. At this point he becomes “virtually the first missionary bishop ...

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