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A walk to the beautiful Mám Éan and St.Patrick's Shrine which was a pre-Christian sacred site. More information below.
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In regard to Patrick's mission to Ireland, Palladius preceded him as well as the fact that there were other ways that Christianity reached Ireland. There was trading with the British and with the Gauls on the continent and refugees from the continent fleeing oppression. Twenty years previous to Palladius there was Pelagius, an Irish monk, who taught that people were NOT born with Original Sin but were born with the free will to behave righteously as they wished. We are told that Ireland was a barbarian state until Patrick came and civilised us with Christianity, but in fact Ireland had produced Pelagius - a well educated (he wrote and spoke in Latin and Greek) man who was well versed in theology. The fact that he came from Ireland suggests that there was a strong community of Christians already here long before Patrick. March 17th is St. Patrick's Day, supposedly because he died on this date but I suspect because it supplants the Spring Equinox.
The shrine at Mám Éan, which means "Pass of the Birds" is reputedly one of the places where Patrick stopped when he was travelling Ireland on his mission although he was in fact based in the north east of the country and is buried in Downpatrick in Northern Ireland.