St. Patrick
historical figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Patrick · the saint
in the texts
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Christian missionary saint credited with the legendary founding of the Senchus Mor.
that is, Nuada was put to death for his crime, and Patrick obtained heaven for him.
Patrick—so says this preface—had been killed, and the question arose whether Nuada, the slayer, should die, or whether the saint was bound by his own principles to unconditional forgiveness.
In a remarkable preface, of which I shall have much to say hereafter, it gives an account, partly in verse, of the circumstances under which it was drawn up, and it professes to have been compiled during the life and under the personal influence of St.
The Genius of the Common Law
Figure (associated with Saint Patrick) named alongside Ossian in reference to legendary Celtic-age disputes.
It is enough to mention the Celts of the dimly discerned heroic age — the days to which the legendary disputes of Ossian and Patrick were assigned — and the Arabs of the time before Islam.