Here in modern times poor Saint Patrick would have been accused of all kinds of things including...
Moralism
Arianism
Partialism
Moralism
Arianism
Partialism
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Saint Patrick in Modern Times
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St. Patrick was no theologian, nor was he a partialist or an Arian.
The ninth century hagiography known as the Tripartite Life (Bethu Phátraic) recounts an episode where Patrick converts the two daughters of Lóegaire mac Néill, saying in response to their question about what kind of God he worships:
St. Patrick, full of the Holy Spirit, responded, "Our God is the God of all, the God of heaven and earth….He hath a Son, coeternal and coequal with Himself; and the Son is not younger than the Father, nor is the Father older than the Son. And the Holy Ghost breatheth in them. And the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost are not divided. I desire, moreover, to unite you to the Son of the heavenly king,
Thomas Dineley was an English traveller to Ireland who wrote a travel memoir.
There is nothing in Dineley's 1681 account of the legend of St. Patrick that claims he was using the shamrock to teach the mystery of the Holy Trinity, and this story does not appear in writing anywhere until a 1726 work by the botanist Caleb Threlkeld. Threlkeld identifies the shamrock as White Field Clover (Trifolium pratense album) and comments rather acerbically on the custom of wearing the shamrock on St. Patrick's Day.
The ninth century hagiography known as the Tripartite Life (Bethu Phátraic) recounts an episode where Patrick converts the two daughters of Lóegaire mac Néill, saying in response to their question about what kind of God he worships:
St. Patrick, full of the Holy Spirit, responded, "Our God is the God of all, the God of heaven and earth….He hath a Son, coeternal and coequal with Himself; and the Son is not younger than the Father, nor is the Father older than the Son. And the Holy Ghost breatheth in them. And the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost are not divided. I desire, moreover, to unite you to the Son of the heavenly king,
Thomas Dineley was an English traveller to Ireland who wrote a travel memoir.
There is nothing in Dineley's 1681 account of the legend of St. Patrick that claims he was using the shamrock to teach the mystery of the Holy Trinity, and this story does not appear in writing anywhere until a 1726 work by the botanist Caleb Threlkeld. Threlkeld identifies the shamrock as White Field Clover (Trifolium pratense album) and comments rather acerbically on the custom of wearing the shamrock on St. Patrick's Day.