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[Patrick, voiceover]
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To narrate in detail
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either the whole story
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of my labors or even parts
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of it would take a long time.
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So, I shall tell
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you briefly how God,
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the all-holy one, often
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freed me from slavery
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and from 12 dangers
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which threatened my life,
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as well as from many
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snares and from things
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which I am unable
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to express in words.
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[narrator] To find
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the real St. Patrick,
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you have to peel back
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centuries of legend and myth.
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[Henry] There's the image
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of him driving out
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snakes from Ireland.
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[Billy] The bishop
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with the miter
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and the staff and the crozier.
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[Elva] He's also associated
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very strongly
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with the shamrock.
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[Thomas] And then
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Shamrock gives us green.
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[Charles] People
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think he's Irish
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when in fact he's British.
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[Tim] Most of the preconception
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that we've got
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about St. Patrick
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actually is completely wrong.
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[narrator] Most of what we
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know about the real Patrick
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comes from his own
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5th century letter,
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known as the Confessio
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or Confession.
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It is one of the earliest
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surviving documents
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in Irish history.
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[Tim quoting
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Patrick's Confession in Latin]
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"I, Patrick, a sinner,
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least faithful of many."
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Those are the words that
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begin the history of Ireland.
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[groaning]
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I am Patrick.
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I am a sinner,
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the most unsophisticated
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of people;
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the least among
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all the Christians;
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and, to some, the
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most contemptible.
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Patrick was writing
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his message to people
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who had allowed him to come
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here to Ireland as a missionary.
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There's various controversies
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that become associated
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with Patrick and he's defending
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his good name and character.
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[Patrick, voiceover] Even if
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I am imperfect in many things
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I want my brothers and
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relatives to know
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the sort of man
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I am, so that they
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may understand
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what it is to which I
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have committed my soul.
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[man speaking foreign language]
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[tutor] Again Patrick.
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[Potitus] Shouldn't we
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wait and see what happens?
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I understand the plight,
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but we still must collect.
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[Patrick, voiceover] I am
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the son of deacon Calpornius,
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as he was the son of the
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priest Potitus who belonged
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to the village of
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Bannavem Taburniae.
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[speaking foreign language]
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[narrator] Bannavem Taburniae
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was a village located
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somewhere along the
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western coast of Britain,
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which at the time was
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part of the Roman Empire.
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[Tim] The Roman Empire
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was disintegrating.
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The legions were called
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back to Rome to defend it
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against the barbarians.
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As the Roman administration
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and structures shrank
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in Britain it allowed
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for local leaders
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to come to the fore.
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All the gold coins first.
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Yes.
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We stack them here.
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[narrator] One of those
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leaders was Patrick's father,
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whom he also describes
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as a Decurion.
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- You understand?
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- Yes.
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[Thomas] The
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Decurions are basically
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the local Roman civil service.
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In other words,
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they keep the tax books.
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But if there was a shortfall,
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then it had to come out
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of their own resources.
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So, we find that in
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the late Roman Empire,
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a lot of these people
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began to join the church
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because they had an exemption
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or at least a tax rebate,
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shall we say.
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[speaking foreign language]
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[Charles] Patrick says,
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"Oh we didn't pay
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too much attention
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"to our religion," et cetera.
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It would suggest that his
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people were Christian,
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of course, but you
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know, money counts.
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The blood of Christ Jesus.
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Amen.
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Would you like some prunes?
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[Charles] These
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people were well off.
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They had a villa
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outside the town.
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They had male and
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female slaves.
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Slave!
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[Calpornius] Enjoy the bread.
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He would have been
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taught to read and write,
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not only so that he could
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take over the clerical aspect
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of his parents,
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but the tax aspect,
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which would have
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required literacy.
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[speaking foreign language]
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Much better.
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[narrator] Patrick
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had a bright future.
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But living on the edge of the
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Roman Empire was dangerous.
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11!
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[laughing]
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All right, here we go!
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[woman screaming]
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[woman screaming]
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[grunting]
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[grunting]
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[narrator] Patrick was taken
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captive by Irish raiders.
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[Thomas] The reason
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they didn't kill him
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was that he was valuable.
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Slaves are a
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valuable commodity.
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[Billy] He probably
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thought that he would
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never see his home again,
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never see his parents,
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never see his family.
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[Tim] It was a one-way
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ticket to the unknown.
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[singing in foreign language]
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[narrator] Patrick
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endured a dangerous voyage
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across the sea to the
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eastern coast of Ireland.
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[Tim] The Roman Britain view
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was Ireland was a place
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of Barbarians at the
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end of the world.
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[Elva] Clearly at this point
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there is some sort of market
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for British slaves in Ireland.
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And Patrick himself tells
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us that there are many,
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many of his countrymen
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who are also slaves
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in Ireland as well.
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Get going, boy!
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Celtic people did not work
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with slaves the same way
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that the Romans did.
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They treated their slaves
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pretty badly, like cattle,
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and would've worked
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you until you died.
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[Elva] Particularly
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as a non-Irish slave,
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he would have been at an
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even greater disadvantage
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because he wouldn't have been
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recognized almost as a person.
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Presumably it is a sort of
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meant-to-be slavery for life.
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[Patrick] We had
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pulled back from God;
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we did not keep
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his commandments;
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and we did not listen
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to our priests who kept
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on warning us regarding
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our salvation.
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[dramatic orchestral music]
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And so the Lord poured
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upon us the heat
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of his anger and dispersed
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us among many peoples right
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out to the very
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ends of the earth,
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where now my utter
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insignificance
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is seen among these
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men of an alien land.
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[Father Swan] He begins to
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conclude that this has happened
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because I deserved it
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basically and this happened
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to shake me out of my
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complacency and to shake me
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out of a way of
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life I was living,
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in which God didn't
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matter for me.
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[Charles] The idea
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that he was now a slave,
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it's the world
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turned upside down.
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[Patrick, voiceover] I
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remained in death and unbelief
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until I was truly
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punished and, in truth,
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brought low by daily
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deprivations of
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hunger and nakedness.
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[Charles] There would have
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been raiding parties
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learning military tactics
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and they had to go off
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and get the head of a
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person from another tribe.
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So these were dangerous people,
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they were dangerous to
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their own people as well.
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And it was under those
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conditions that he began
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to reflect upon
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himself, his life,
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and his relationship with
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God and the other world.
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[Patrick, voiceover] There the
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Lord opened my understanding
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to my unbelief,
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so that however late,
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I might become conscious
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of my failings.
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Then remembering
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my need, I might turn
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with all my heart
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to the Lord my God.
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For it was He who looked
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after me before I knew Him.
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Indeed, as a father
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consoles his son,
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so He protected me.
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He's learning that God
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is a father he can trust,
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and who wants
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what's best for him.
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Then something began in him
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that was destined to continue.
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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I tended sheep every day,
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and I prayed frequently
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during the day.
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And more and more,
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the love of God
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and the fear of Him
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grew in me, and my faith
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was increased and my
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spirit was quickened,
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so that in a day
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I prayed up to 100 times,
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and almost as many
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in the night.
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Indeed, I even
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remained in the wood
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and on the mountain to pray.
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And come hail, rain or snow,
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I was up before dawn to pray;
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the Spirit was fervent in me.
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[Billy] Something
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new is happening,
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something that hadn't
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happened before.
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That personal
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relationship, the dimension
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of a personal
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relationship with God.
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This sears his soul.
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So much so that he describes it
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almost as a
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conversion experience.
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[narrator] Patrick's
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zeal for God grew
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so much that even though
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he was starving, he fasted.
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[Thomas] Fasting was the
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way you demonstrated you
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were really feeling
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your prayer.
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You were not just saying words.
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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It was there indeed,
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that one night I heard a voice.
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[God] Patrick.
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Well have you fasted.
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Very soon you are to
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travel to your homeland.
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Behold, your ship is prepared.
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[gasping]
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[dramatic orchestral music]
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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I took flight, leaving the man
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I had been bound
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to for six years.
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The ship was not nearby,
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but maybe 200 miles away
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where I had never been
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and where I knew nobody.
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[Charles] When you
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left your tribal group,
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you were really going
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into unknown territory
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and you were losing
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protection immediately.
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[narrator] The real challenge
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was traveling through
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Ireland as a foreigner.
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Although he could now
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speak the Irish language,
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his accent and appearance
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would give him away at once.
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The biggest danger is
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someone says, you're a slave.
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I'll find out
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where you come from
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and I'll take you back
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and I'll claim a reward.
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[dramatic orchestral music]
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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I traveled in the power of God,
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who directed my path towards
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the good, and I feared nothing.
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[Billy] He wasn't afraid
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because he had come to know God
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whose plans for Patrick's life
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were going to be worked out
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and realized,
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with Patrick's consent
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and with Patrick's
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cooperation in the Spirit.
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[Tim] In those days,
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Ireland was a patchwork quilt
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of little kingdoms.
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There were no roads,
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there were no towns.
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[Elva] This would have
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been mainly bog land.
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How would have Patrick
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concealed himself?
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[Thomas] You have to
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think of him in terms
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of the way prisoners
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of war have
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to get back over
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enemy territory.
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You've got to be
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fast on your feet,
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fast with your tongue,
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and keep your eyes wide open.
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[Charles] By being
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fairly stealthful,
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he could have worked his way
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to a point in
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which he knew there
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were ships leaving for Britain.
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[men chattering]
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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The ship was about to depart
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on the very day I arrived.
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I want to set sail with you.
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By no means are
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you coming with us!
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Go on!
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Go on!
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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I began to pray.
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And before I finished
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my prayer,
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I heard one of
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the crew shouting.
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Come quickly!
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Come on, we're
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taking you on faith.
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[narrator] Patrick was
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then asked to pledge himself
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to the crew through
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a Celtic tradition
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that involved sucking
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on their chests.
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These days we
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would shake hands.
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In those days that
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was a-- a way of bonding
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with each other to show that
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you would be loyal to them.
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He didn't want to do that
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because he was Christian.
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I can't.
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Go on.
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Move!
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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Despite this,
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I stayed with them
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but I hoped that some
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of them would come
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to faith in Jesus Christ,
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for they were all pagans.
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Give me that.
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Put that on.
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Load it.
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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And without further ado,
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we got underway.
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[Captain] Come on, put
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your back in it! Yah!
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There must be a
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tremendous sense of elation.
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"Yes!
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"This is right!
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"I have had a vision,
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I've followed God.
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It's worked out."
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[Thomas] The way
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Patrick remembers it,
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it's not his efforts
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or his good luck,
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but it's the grace of God.
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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We landed after three days
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and for the next 28
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days we made our way
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through the wilderness.
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[dramatic orchestral music]
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[Elva] Either the boat
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gets blown off course,
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they land beyond
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the Roman frontiers,
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or alternatively
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the port they arrive
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in may have been subject
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to barbarian raiding
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that's been laid-waste
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in some way.
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[Charles] Maybe they
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were going on a raid
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and didn't want to be seen.
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So, they land in a part of the
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country far from habitation.
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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When their food ran out,
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starvation overcame them.
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So now Christian,
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you explain to us
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how we're in this bad state.
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Your God is great
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and all powerful,
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so why are you not able
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to pray for us, huh?
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We who are on the very
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brink of starvation.
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Turn in trust...
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and with your whole heart
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to the Lord,
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my God to whom
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nothing is impossible,
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that today He may send
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food to satisfy you
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on your journey,
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for He has abundance everywhere.
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[roaring]
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[narrator] They made camp there
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for two nights,
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and they were well
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00:22:29,389 --> 00:22:32,643
restored, for many of them
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00:22:32,685 --> 00:22:37,064
had dropped out and had been
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left half dead by the roadside.
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And after this they
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thanked God mightily,
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and I became honorable
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in their eyes.
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[laughing]
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[dramatic orchestral music]
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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That very night,
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while I was sleeping,
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Satan strongly tried me.
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Something like an enormous
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00:23:02,798 --> 00:23:07,220
rock fell on top of me
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00:23:07,261 --> 00:23:10,639
and I lost all
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power over my limbs.
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[narrator] In his distress,
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Patrick says
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he called on Elias.
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[Billy] Elias in
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Latin means Elijah.
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And there are a number
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of people who believe
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00:23:19,565 --> 00:23:21,275
it's a parallel with Christ
555
00:23:21,317 --> 00:23:24,611
on the cross who calls out
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"Eli Eli" as he was dying.
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Elias!
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Elias!
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Elias!
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00:23:32,161 --> 00:23:35,331
[dramatic orchestral music]
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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Behold the sun's
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00:23:35,373 --> 00:23:39,668
splendor fell on me
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00:23:39,710 --> 00:23:43,547
and dispelled immediately all
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00:23:39,710 --> 00:23:43,547
the heaviness from upon me.
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And I believe that Christ,
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00:23:47,260 --> 00:23:50,971
my Lord assisted
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00:23:47,260 --> 00:23:50,971
me and his Spirit
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00:23:51,013 --> 00:23:53,557
had already cried
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00:23:51,013 --> 00:23:53,557
out through me.
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00:23:59,855 --> 00:24:03,276
As we traveled,
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the Lord looked after us
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with food, fire and
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00:24:03,317 --> 00:24:08,322
dry shelter each day.
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And on the very night
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we reached humanity,
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we had no food left.
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[Captain] We're looking
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for food and lodging.
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00:24:17,290 --> 00:24:18,624
Can you show us where?
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Can you take us?
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[narrator] For Patrick,
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finding civilization
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only led to more problems.
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[Patrick, voiceover] I was
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once again taken captive.
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Take him.
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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On the very first night
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00:24:59,748 --> 00:25:01,000
I was with them,
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I received a divine revelation.
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[God] Patrick, you will
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00:25:04,586 --> 00:25:10,717
remain with them for two
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months.
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[Patrick, voiceover]
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On the 60th night,
597
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this is exactly what happened.
598
00:25:25,483 --> 00:25:27,651
The Lord freed me
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00:25:25,483 --> 00:25:27,651
from their hands.
600
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[grand orchestral music]
601
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Patrick?
602
00:26:14,781 --> 00:26:15,991
Oh, Patrick.
603
00:26:16,033 --> 00:26:17,201
My son.
604
00:26:17,243 --> 00:26:18,411
Patrick!
605
00:26:19,537 --> 00:26:20,662
He's alive.
606
00:26:20,704 --> 00:26:21,788
You're alive.
607
00:26:21,830 --> 00:26:24,124
Ohhh!
608
00:26:21,830 --> 00:26:24,124
Oh!
609
00:26:24,166 --> 00:26:26,584
[Calpornius] Thank God.
610
00:26:24,166 --> 00:26:26,584
We thought you were dead.
611
00:26:26,626 --> 00:26:30,172
[Thomas] Of all of the many
612
00:26:26,626 --> 00:26:30,172
slaves that were taken
613
00:26:30,214 --> 00:26:33,800
from the Roman Empire,
614
00:26:30,214 --> 00:26:33,800
we know the name of only one
615
00:26:33,842 --> 00:26:38,180
that was taken and
616
00:26:33,842 --> 00:26:38,180
escaped, Patrick.
617
00:26:39,306 --> 00:26:42,017
They gave me a son's welcome,
618
00:26:43,394 --> 00:26:46,604
and in good faith, begged me,
619
00:26:46,646 --> 00:26:52,319
after all those great
620
00:26:46,646 --> 00:26:52,319
tribulations I had been through,
621
00:26:52,361 --> 00:26:57,533
that I should go nowhere,
622
00:26:52,361 --> 00:26:57,533
nor ever leave them.
623
00:27:06,875 --> 00:27:09,627
Get you some bread!
624
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[Elva] The Patrick who returned
625
00:27:10,837 --> 00:27:12,089
to them was very different
626
00:27:12,131 --> 00:27:14,174
than the Patrick that had left,
627
00:27:14,216 --> 00:27:16,260
and his experiences
628
00:27:14,216 --> 00:27:16,260
had changed him so much
629
00:27:16,302 --> 00:27:18,137
as an individual that he
630
00:27:16,302 --> 00:27:18,137
was no longer interested
631
00:27:18,178 --> 00:27:21,181
in going back to the
632
00:27:18,178 --> 00:27:21,181
life as he had it.
633
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You're home Patrick.
634
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You're home.
635
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[narrator] Soon
636
00:27:36,363 --> 00:27:38,616
after his return,
637
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Patrick had another vision.
638
00:27:41,368 --> 00:27:45,205
[dramatic orchestral music]
639
00:27:53,130 --> 00:27:56,883
[Patrick, voiceover] A man
640
00:27:53,130 --> 00:27:56,883
named Victoricus arrived
641
00:27:56,925 --> 00:28:00,887
from Ireland with
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00:27:56,925 --> 00:28:00,887
countless letters.
643
00:28:00,929 --> 00:28:06,393
He gave me one of them and I
644
00:28:00,929 --> 00:28:06,393
began to read what was in it.
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00:28:06,435 --> 00:28:09,396
[Billy] In all probability
646
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it was someone
647
00:28:09,438 --> 00:28:11,273
that Patrick knew from Ireland.
648
00:28:15,569 --> 00:28:18,489
[Patrick, voiceover]
649
00:28:15,569 --> 00:28:18,489
The voice of the Irish?
650
00:28:18,531 --> 00:28:19,990
At that very moment,
651
00:28:20,032 --> 00:28:21,699
[thunder crashing]
652
00:28:21,741 --> 00:28:24,828
I thought I heard
653
00:28:21,741 --> 00:28:24,828
the voice of those
654
00:28:24,870 --> 00:28:30,543
around the Wood of Foclut which
655
00:28:24,870 --> 00:28:30,543
is close to the Western Sea.
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[woman] 'O Holy Boy--
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00:28:31,877 --> 00:28:33,462
[man] We beg you
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00:28:31,877 --> 00:28:33,462
to come again--
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[man 2] And walk among us.
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[Patrick, voiceover]
661
00:28:35,881 --> 00:28:39,343
I was brokenhearted
662
00:28:39,385 --> 00:28:41,803
and could not read
663
00:28:39,385 --> 00:28:41,803
anything more.
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And at that moment I woke up!
665
00:28:47,184 --> 00:28:50,854
[breathing heavily]
666
00:28:50,896 --> 00:28:55,150
[dramatic orchestral music]
667
00:28:55,192 --> 00:28:57,110
[Henry] That transforms Patrick.
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00:28:57,152 --> 00:29:01,740
That is his call
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00:28:57,152 --> 00:29:01,740
to be a missionary.
670
00:29:10,123 --> 00:29:13,335
I was not quick in accepting
671
00:29:13,377 --> 00:29:15,379
what He had made clear to me
672
00:29:18,340 --> 00:29:20,092
and the Spirit reminded me.
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00:29:23,929 --> 00:29:27,766
[speaking foreign language]
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00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:42,239
[Patrick, voiceover]
675
00:29:41,113 --> 00:29:42,239
And the Lord
676
00:29:42,281 --> 00:29:43,907
was merciful to me thousands
677
00:29:43,949 --> 00:29:46,910
upon thousands of times
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00:29:43,949 --> 00:29:46,910
because He saw what was
679
00:29:46,952 --> 00:29:51,415
within me and that I was ready
680
00:29:51,457 --> 00:29:53,375
but I did not know
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00:29:51,457 --> 00:29:53,375
what I should do
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about the state of my life.
683
00:30:03,552 --> 00:30:05,763
The blood of Christ Jesus.
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[woman] We beg you to come
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00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:09,808
again and walk among us.
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00:30:13,061 --> 00:30:14,354
Amen.
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00:30:32,665 --> 00:30:35,208
Can I speak with you?
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00:30:35,250 --> 00:30:41,632
[Thomas] No one in Christianity
689
00:30:35,250 --> 00:30:41,632
before the 16th century
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00:30:35,250 --> 00:30:41,632
thinks you
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00:30:41,674 --> 00:30:43,759
can just have a ministry because
692
00:30:41,674 --> 00:30:43,759
you just have a ministry.
693
00:30:43,801 --> 00:30:46,178
You have to think of
694
00:30:43,801 --> 00:30:46,178
ministry through the ministry
695
00:30:46,219 --> 00:30:47,429
of the church.
696
00:30:49,848 --> 00:30:51,057
What brings you here?
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00:30:52,392 --> 00:30:56,021
I wish to be a cleric.
698
00:31:00,693 --> 00:31:02,068
[narrator] Patrick
699
00:31:00,693 --> 00:31:02,068
had to work his way
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00:31:02,110 --> 00:31:05,531
up the ranks to become
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00:31:02,110 --> 00:31:05,531
a bishop.
702
00:31:05,572 --> 00:31:09,951
Bishops can ordain priests
703
00:31:05,572 --> 00:31:09,951
so you can create a hierarchy
704
00:31:09,993 --> 00:31:12,120
that will survive
705
00:31:09,993 --> 00:31:12,120
after your death.
706
00:31:12,162 --> 00:31:16,625
You have to have a bishop in
707
00:31:12,162 --> 00:31:16,625
order to establish a Church.
708
00:31:16,667 --> 00:31:18,960
[speaking foreign language]
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Amen.
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00:31:20,838 --> 00:31:23,089
[Billy] The style
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00:31:20,838 --> 00:31:23,089
of formation training
712
00:31:23,131 --> 00:31:27,177
would have been mentoring
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00:31:23,131 --> 00:31:27,177
in basic responsibilities
714
00:31:27,219 --> 00:31:29,221
of how to celebrate
715
00:31:27,219 --> 00:31:29,221
the liturgy,
716
00:31:29,262 --> 00:31:31,097
pastoral duties towards people,
717
00:31:31,139 --> 00:31:34,059
preaching, sacramental
718
00:31:31,139 --> 00:31:34,059
celebration.
719
00:31:36,144 --> 00:31:38,980
I'm here to learn
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00:31:36,144 --> 00:31:38,980
about the Lord.
721
00:31:39,022 --> 00:31:40,399
There are many scrolls.
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[narrator]
723
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It's believed that Patrick's
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apprenticeship took him
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00:31:42,609 --> 00:31:44,027
to Gaul, Northern France,
726
00:31:44,069 --> 00:31:45,487
for a time.
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00:31:48,365 --> 00:31:50,158
[Thomas] It would
728
00:31:48,365 --> 00:31:50,158
have been the equivalent
729
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:54,120
of going from
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00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:54,120
Alaska to New York.
731
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If he wanted to meet
732
00:31:54,162 --> 00:31:56,956
lots of other Christians
733
00:31:56,998 --> 00:31:59,668
whom he could talk
734
00:31:56,998 --> 00:31:59,668
to about theology
735
00:31:59,710 --> 00:32:02,254
and about faith
736
00:31:59,710 --> 00:32:02,254
and about belief,
737
00:32:02,295 --> 00:32:05,131
then Gaul would be
738
00:32:02,295 --> 00:32:05,131
the place to go.
739
00:32:05,173 --> 00:32:06,425
[laughing]
740
00:32:06,466 --> 00:32:09,219
Of course it was
741
00:32:06,466 --> 00:32:09,219
always, you know.
742
00:32:13,891 --> 00:32:15,517
[narrator] During
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00:32:13,891 --> 00:32:15,517
his training,
744
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:17,603
Patrick developed
745
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:17,603
a close friendship
746
00:32:17,644 --> 00:32:20,480
with a young clergyman in
747
00:32:17,644 --> 00:32:20,480
whom he felt he could confide.
748
00:32:22,190 --> 00:32:23,400
Felix.
749
00:32:27,195 --> 00:32:28,488
I am a sinner.
750
00:32:30,407 --> 00:32:32,117
I must confess what I have done.
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00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:35,788
[Patrick, voiceover]
752
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Once when I was anxious
753
00:32:35,829 --> 00:32:39,291
and worried I hinted
754
00:32:35,829 --> 00:32:39,291
to my dearest friend
755
00:32:39,332 --> 00:32:42,502
about something I
756
00:32:39,332 --> 00:32:42,502
had done one day,
757
00:32:42,544 --> 00:32:45,171
indeed in one hour of my youth,
758
00:32:45,213 --> 00:32:49,092
for I had not then
759
00:32:45,213 --> 00:32:49,092
prevailed over my sinfulness
760
00:32:49,134 --> 00:32:52,095
and I was not a believer
761
00:32:49,134 --> 00:32:52,095
in the true God.
762
00:32:53,764 --> 00:32:55,724
[narrator]
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00:32:53,764 --> 00:32:55,724
Many have tried to guess
764
00:32:55,766 --> 00:32:57,476
what Patrick's boyhood
765
00:32:55,766 --> 00:32:57,476
sin might have been.
766
00:32:57,517 --> 00:32:59,269
Some say it was immorality.
767
00:32:59,311 --> 00:33:02,481
Others, idolatry
768
00:32:59,311 --> 00:33:02,481
or even murder.
769
00:33:02,522 --> 00:33:04,942
But the truth is
770
00:33:02,522 --> 00:33:04,942
that no one knows,
771
00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:06,944
because Patrick
772
00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:06,944
doesn't tell us.
773
00:33:11,406 --> 00:33:13,325
Am I ever to be forgiven?
774
00:33:24,670 --> 00:33:26,421
You are forgiven.
775
00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:35,973
[mentor] Patrick.
776
00:33:56,493 --> 00:34:00,288
[dramatic orchestral music]
777
00:34:11,174 --> 00:34:12,592
[father] Patrick!
778
00:34:13,969 --> 00:34:15,178
You have a visitor.
779
00:34:16,346 --> 00:34:17,639
Felix.
780
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,183
Patrick.
781
00:34:20,225 --> 00:34:22,268
Please, help yourself.
782
00:34:24,437 --> 00:34:26,648
What is it that brings
783
00:34:24,437 --> 00:34:26,648
you all the way out here?
784
00:34:31,361 --> 00:34:36,324
It appears that you are to
785
00:34:31,361 --> 00:34:36,324
be given the rank of bishop.
786
00:34:46,835 --> 00:34:48,086
I am unworthy.
787
00:34:49,046 --> 00:34:51,715
It is the will of the elders.
788
00:34:57,345 --> 00:34:59,222
This is quite a surprise.
789
00:34:59,264 --> 00:35:00,599
I'm not sure I--
790
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,059
I am expected in
791
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,059
Cardiff by nightfall.
792
00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:03,268
I must go.
793
00:35:03,309 --> 00:35:05,437
Of course.
794
00:35:07,814 --> 00:35:09,024
Wait!
795
00:35:10,734 --> 00:35:14,571
[dramatic orchestral music]
796
00:36:06,832 --> 00:36:10,836
[singing in foreign language]
797
00:36:42,742 --> 00:36:46,788
[speaking foreign language]
798
00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:49,499
Amen.
799
00:36:55,005 --> 00:36:56,381
Go in peace, friend.
800
00:37:00,052 --> 00:37:02,512
[Patrick, voiceover]
801
00:37:00,052 --> 00:37:02,512
Many were forbidding
802
00:37:00,052 --> 00:37:02,512
my mission.
803
00:37:02,554 --> 00:37:05,932
Behind my back, they
804
00:37:02,554 --> 00:37:05,932
were telling stories.
805
00:37:05,974 --> 00:37:07,184
To Ireland?
806
00:37:08,894 --> 00:37:10,395
Well, why would
807
00:37:08,894 --> 00:37:10,395
this man put himself
808
00:37:10,436 --> 00:37:13,565
in danger among enemies
809
00:37:10,436 --> 00:37:13,565
who do not know God?
810
00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:15,400
For what reason?
811
00:37:15,441 --> 00:37:17,360
[Billy] People thought
812
00:37:15,441 --> 00:37:17,360
that this mission was crazy,
813
00:37:17,402 --> 00:37:19,362
the Irish people were
814
00:37:17,402 --> 00:37:19,362
beyond redemption,
815
00:37:19,404 --> 00:37:22,532
that even the Roman Empire
816
00:37:19,404 --> 00:37:22,532
had not gone that far,
817
00:37:22,574 --> 00:37:25,994
and that his efforts
818
00:37:22,574 --> 00:37:25,994
to Christianize Ireland
819
00:37:26,036 --> 00:37:27,370
were doomed to failure.
820
00:37:27,412 --> 00:37:29,247
[Bishop] They're savages!
821
00:37:27,412 --> 00:37:29,247
These heathen!
822
00:37:35,879 --> 00:37:37,964
[Elva] Patrick really
823
00:37:35,879 --> 00:37:37,964
believes that if he preaches
824
00:37:38,006 --> 00:37:41,384
to the end of the earth this
825
00:37:38,006 --> 00:37:41,384
will complete God's mission
826
00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:43,720
and will usher in
827
00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:43,720
the Second Coming,
828
00:37:43,762 --> 00:37:46,223
which Patrick presumably
829
00:37:43,762 --> 00:37:46,223
hoped would happen
830
00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:48,100
in his lifetime and maybe even
831
00:37:48,141 --> 00:37:50,060
as a result of his activities.
832
00:37:59,069 --> 00:38:00,486
[narrator] Against all odds,
833
00:38:00,528 --> 00:38:02,655
Patrick was eventually
834
00:38:00,528 --> 00:38:02,655
permitted
835
00:38:02,697 --> 00:38:05,408
to return to Ireland
836
00:38:02,697 --> 00:38:05,408
as a missionary bishop.
837
00:38:06,952 --> 00:38:08,620
While the British
838
00:38:06,952 --> 00:38:08,620
Church most likely
839
00:38:08,661 --> 00:38:10,329
funded the mission continually,
840
00:38:10,371 --> 00:38:12,373
some scholars
841
00:38:10,371 --> 00:38:12,373
believe that Patrick
842
00:38:12,415 --> 00:38:14,500
paid the initial cost himself.
843
00:38:16,753 --> 00:38:18,755
[Elva] He sells his nobility,
844
00:38:18,797 --> 00:38:20,506
which I take to be a
845
00:38:18,797 --> 00:38:20,506
reference to him selling,
846
00:38:20,548 --> 00:38:22,926
essentially his inheritance.
847
00:38:22,968 --> 00:38:24,928
It's almost like a
848
00:38:22,968 --> 00:38:24,928
form of seed funding,
849
00:38:24,970 --> 00:38:27,055
which will enable him
850
00:38:24,970 --> 00:38:27,055
to get to Ireland.
851
00:38:33,352 --> 00:38:37,190
I imagine that Patrick's
852
00:38:33,352 --> 00:38:37,190
parents had fully expected him
853
00:38:37,232 --> 00:38:40,693
to take on the role, as maybe
854
00:38:37,232 --> 00:38:40,693
the heir of the family.
855
00:38:43,446 --> 00:38:46,324
[Charles] He would have been
856
00:38:43,446 --> 00:38:46,324
opting out of any
857
00:38:43,446 --> 00:38:46,324
responsibility
858
00:38:46,365 --> 00:38:48,201
for running estates, et cetera.
859
00:39:03,675 --> 00:39:06,136
This does not
860
00:39:03,675 --> 00:39:06,136
have to be, Patrick.
861
00:39:08,263 --> 00:39:12,142
It is the will of God.
862
00:39:30,869 --> 00:39:32,037
For the journey.
863
00:39:38,877 --> 00:39:42,714
[Patrick, voiceover]
864
00:39:38,877 --> 00:39:42,714
Many gifts were
865
00:39:38,877 --> 00:39:42,714
offered to me with sorrow
866
00:39:42,755 --> 00:39:45,591
and tears and I offended them
867
00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:49,221
and went against the will
868
00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:49,221
of some of my elders.
869
00:39:52,932 --> 00:39:54,309
Father.
870
00:40:14,746 --> 00:40:16,789
[Patrick, voiceover]
871
00:40:14,746 --> 00:40:16,789
It was not my grace,
872
00:40:16,831 --> 00:40:22,795
but God who conquered in me
873
00:40:16,831 --> 00:40:22,795
and who resisted them all
874
00:40:22,837 --> 00:40:27,717
that I might come to the Irish
875
00:40:22,837 --> 00:40:27,717
nations to preach the gospel.
876
00:40:33,223 --> 00:40:37,227
[dramatic orchestral music]
877
00:40:45,026 --> 00:40:47,862
[Father Swan] In terms of the
878
00:40:45,026 --> 00:40:47,862
challenge of it,
879
00:40:45,026 --> 00:40:47,862
it was just awesome.
880
00:40:47,904 --> 00:40:50,365
He didn't know what he
881
00:40:47,904 --> 00:40:50,365
faced, possible death
882
00:40:50,407 --> 00:40:54,244
and persecution, more
883
00:40:50,407 --> 00:40:54,244
slavery, imprisonment.
884
00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:57,580
[narrator] Patrick
885
00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:57,580
was not the first bishop
886
00:40:57,622 --> 00:40:59,457
to be sent to Ireland.
887
00:40:59,498 --> 00:41:01,626
He was preceded by a
888
00:40:59,498 --> 00:41:01,626
man named Palladius
889
00:41:01,667 --> 00:41:04,837
who had been sent by
890
00:41:01,667 --> 00:41:04,837
the pope a year earlier.
891
00:41:04,879 --> 00:41:08,300
[Thomas] Palladius is most
892
00:41:04,879 --> 00:41:08,300
likely ministering
893
00:41:08,341 --> 00:41:11,719
to a slave community
894
00:41:08,341 --> 00:41:11,719
and to traders.
895
00:41:11,761 --> 00:41:15,140
So, there were Christians
896
00:41:11,761 --> 00:41:15,140
in Ireland, and in fact,
897
00:41:15,181 --> 00:41:19,269
Patrick never assumes
898
00:41:15,181 --> 00:41:19,269
that he converts people
899
00:41:19,311 --> 00:41:21,980
from nothing to Christianity.
900
00:41:32,740 --> 00:41:34,826
[narrator] According
901
00:41:32,740 --> 00:41:34,826
to the Annals of Ulster,
902
00:41:34,867 --> 00:41:38,663
Patrick arrived in Ireland
903
00:41:34,867 --> 00:41:38,663
sometime in AD 432.
904
00:41:38,704 --> 00:41:42,292
Exactly where he
905
00:41:38,704 --> 00:41:42,292
went is not known.
906
00:41:42,334 --> 00:41:44,794
But we do know that
907
00:41:42,334 --> 00:41:44,794
according to Irish law,
908
00:41:44,836 --> 00:41:47,380
Patrick was still a fugitive.
909
00:41:50,425 --> 00:41:53,552
[Thomas] Probably he stayed
910
00:41:50,425 --> 00:41:53,552
far away from the places
911
00:41:53,594 --> 00:41:55,554
that he had been enslaved.
912
00:41:55,596 --> 00:41:58,975
You get a constant sense that
913
00:41:55,596 --> 00:41:58,975
Patrick is living on his wits.
914
00:42:08,067 --> 00:42:11,863
[Billy] He seems to be pervaded
915
00:42:08,067 --> 00:42:11,863
by the spirit of mission
916
00:42:11,904 --> 00:42:13,865
that is taking him beyond
917
00:42:13,906 --> 00:42:15,783
and abroad bringing the gospel
918
00:42:15,825 --> 00:42:19,745
where it had not reached
919
00:42:15,825 --> 00:42:19,745
before out to the very edge,
920
00:42:19,787 --> 00:42:22,832
out to the very
921
00:42:19,787 --> 00:42:22,832
periphery of Ireland.
922
00:42:32,384 --> 00:42:34,677
He seems to have this
923
00:42:32,384 --> 00:42:34,677
collective consciousness
924
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:41,100
of the Irish as a nation,
925
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:41,100
so that leaves him free
926
00:42:41,142 --> 00:42:43,644
to go wherever those Irish
927
00:42:41,142 --> 00:42:43,644
people are to be found.
928
00:42:48,107 --> 00:42:51,403
He's responding just
929
00:42:48,107 --> 00:42:51,403
purely on faith that God
930
00:42:51,444 --> 00:42:53,405
would take him where
931
00:42:51,444 --> 00:42:53,405
he wanted him to go
932
00:42:53,446 --> 00:42:55,532
and where he would
933
00:42:53,446 --> 00:42:55,532
give witness.
934
00:42:59,452 --> 00:43:01,454
[Tim] Patrick was equipped for
935
00:42:59,452 --> 00:43:01,454
the job because he would
936
00:43:01,496 --> 00:43:03,373
have been able to
937
00:43:01,496 --> 00:43:03,373
communicate to the Irish
938
00:43:03,415 --> 00:43:05,833
and bring Christianity by
939
00:43:03,415 --> 00:43:05,833
talking to them more or less
940
00:43:05,875 --> 00:43:07,043
in their own tongue.
941
00:43:08,878 --> 00:43:10,796
[narrator]
942
00:43:08,878 --> 00:43:10,796
Evangelizing the Irish
943
00:43:10,838 --> 00:43:12,798
would prove to be
944
00:43:10,838 --> 00:43:12,798
a challenging task.
945
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,676
Although Christianity was
946
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,676
present in parts of Ireland,
947
00:43:15,718 --> 00:43:18,471
the country was
948
00:43:15,718 --> 00:43:18,471
predominantly pagan.
949
00:43:18,513 --> 00:43:22,392
[speaking foreign language]
950
00:43:26,271 --> 00:43:31,067
Though I am not from this
951
00:43:26,271 --> 00:43:31,067
land, I spent many years here.
952
00:43:31,109 --> 00:43:33,069
And I have returned
953
00:43:31,109 --> 00:43:33,069
with a message.
954
00:43:35,029 --> 00:43:36,781
What is the message you bring?
955
00:43:42,579 --> 00:43:45,498
If you let me inside,
956
00:43:42,579 --> 00:43:45,498
I will tell you.
957
00:43:51,170 --> 00:43:54,299
[Thomas] It's a big deal
958
00:43:51,170 --> 00:43:54,299
if you become a Christian
959
00:43:54,340 --> 00:43:57,885
because you're changing a
960
00:43:54,340 --> 00:43:57,885
set of gods for one God.
961
00:43:57,927 --> 00:43:59,845
You're buying into a
962
00:43:57,927 --> 00:43:59,845
different calendar.
963
00:43:59,887 --> 00:44:03,099
You're changing the
964
00:43:59,887 --> 00:44:03,099
people you associate with.
965
00:44:03,141 --> 00:44:05,435
It's far more like
966
00:44:03,141 --> 00:44:05,435
thinking of someone
967
00:44:05,477 --> 00:44:08,187
who lives in a completely
968
00:44:05,477 --> 00:44:08,187
Buddhist society
969
00:44:08,229 --> 00:44:09,730
becoming a Christian.
970
00:44:17,572 --> 00:44:19,782
And the prophet Hosea says,
971
00:44:19,824 --> 00:44:24,829
"Those who were not my
972
00:44:19,824 --> 00:44:24,829
people I will call my people,
973
00:44:24,870 --> 00:44:28,333
and her who was not beloved
974
00:44:24,870 --> 00:44:28,333
I will call my beloved.
975
00:44:28,374 --> 00:44:30,751
And in the very place
976
00:44:28,374 --> 00:44:30,751
where it was said to them,
977
00:44:30,793 --> 00:44:33,712
you are not my people,
978
00:44:33,754 --> 00:44:36,508
they will be called
979
00:44:33,754 --> 00:44:36,508
sons of the living God."
980
00:44:44,807 --> 00:44:47,018
Who among you heeds the call?
981
00:44:48,811 --> 00:44:51,730
[Billy] The content of
982
00:44:48,811 --> 00:44:51,730
his message is not doomsday.
983
00:44:51,772 --> 00:44:54,942
It's preaching the love
984
00:44:51,772 --> 00:44:54,942
of God, and how others
985
00:44:54,984 --> 00:44:58,279
can come to know God as
986
00:44:54,984 --> 00:44:58,279
a person-loving father,
987
00:44:58,321 --> 00:44:59,738
just as he did.
988
00:45:18,007 --> 00:45:22,220
[Patrick, voiceover] Truly it
989
00:45:18,007 --> 00:45:22,220
is our task to cast our nets
990
00:45:22,261 --> 00:45:26,599
and catch a great multitude
991
00:45:22,261 --> 00:45:26,599
and crowd for God;
992
00:45:26,641 --> 00:45:29,726
to make sure that there
993
00:45:26,641 --> 00:45:29,726
are clergy everywhere
994
00:45:29,768 --> 00:45:36,609
to baptize and preach
995
00:45:29,768 --> 00:45:36,609
to a people who are in need.
996
00:45:39,529 --> 00:45:43,449
Baptism for early
997
00:45:39,529 --> 00:45:43,449
Christians was the moment
998
00:45:43,491 --> 00:45:46,536
of commitment when you
999
00:45:43,491 --> 00:45:46,536
became a true Christian.
1000
00:45:46,578 --> 00:45:50,498
And it was believed in the
1001
00:45:46,578 --> 00:45:50,498
early Church that baptism
1002
00:45:50,540 --> 00:45:51,624
was the one point in your life
1003
00:45:51,666 --> 00:45:53,543
when your sins were washed away.
1004
00:45:55,211 --> 00:45:56,921
[narrator] For the Irish,
1005
00:45:56,962 --> 00:45:58,381
baptism had a
1006
00:45:56,962 --> 00:45:58,381
deeper significance
1007
00:45:58,423 --> 00:46:01,509
because of their mythology.
1008
00:46:01,551 --> 00:46:04,178
[Charles] Water was
1009
00:46:01,551 --> 00:46:04,178
associated with kingship.
1010
00:46:04,220 --> 00:46:07,973
These waters all flowed
1011
00:46:04,220 --> 00:46:07,973
together, entered the ocean,
1012
00:46:08,015 --> 00:46:10,976
and returns as rain and
1013
00:46:08,015 --> 00:46:10,976
falls upon the earth
1014
00:46:11,018 --> 00:46:13,062
creating the great
1015
00:46:11,018 --> 00:46:13,062
cycle of life.
1016
00:46:20,236 --> 00:46:22,905
[Elva] Having baptisms, having
1017
00:46:20,236 --> 00:46:22,905
these public rituals
1018
00:46:22,947 --> 00:46:26,409
in which people
1019
00:46:22,947 --> 00:46:26,409
identify as Christians
1020
00:46:26,451 --> 00:46:30,037
is really powerful and is
1021
00:46:26,451 --> 00:46:30,037
probably one that transfers
1022
00:46:30,079 --> 00:46:32,248
over quite easily
1023
00:46:30,079 --> 00:46:32,248
and is something
1024
00:46:32,290 --> 00:46:34,709
which the pagans
1025
00:46:32,290 --> 00:46:34,709
could also understand
1026
00:46:34,751 --> 00:46:36,252
and could see its significance.
1027
00:46:42,216 --> 00:46:44,302
[Patrick, voiceover]
1028
00:46:42,216 --> 00:46:44,302
And I am greatly
1029
00:46:42,216 --> 00:46:44,302
in God's debt.
1030
00:46:45,344 --> 00:46:48,598
He has given me a great grace,
1031
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,850
that through me many
1032
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:51,850
people might be reborn
1033
00:46:51,892 --> 00:46:56,063
and later brought
1034
00:46:51,892 --> 00:46:56,063
to perfection.
1035
00:46:56,105 --> 00:47:00,985
And also, that from among
1036
00:46:56,105 --> 00:47:00,985
them everywhere clerics
1037
00:47:01,026 --> 00:47:03,488
should be ordained
1038
00:47:01,026 --> 00:47:03,488
to serve this people,
1039
00:47:03,529 --> 00:47:06,198
who have but recently
1040
00:47:03,529 --> 00:47:06,198
come to belief.
1041
00:47:08,326 --> 00:47:13,539
And again,
1042
00:47:08,326 --> 00:47:13,539
"Go into all the world
1043
00:47:13,581 --> 00:47:16,250
and preach the gospel
1044
00:47:13,581 --> 00:47:16,250
to every creature.
1045
00:47:16,292 --> 00:47:22,465
He who believes and is
1046
00:47:16,292 --> 00:47:22,465
baptized will be saved.
1047
00:47:26,636 --> 00:47:32,141
He who does not believe
1048
00:47:26,636 --> 00:47:32,141
will be condemned."
1049
00:47:44,195 --> 00:47:45,488
Now go.
1050
00:47:50,785 --> 00:47:53,538
[Billy] Patrick's ministry
1051
00:47:50,785 --> 00:47:53,538
was extremely effective.
1052
00:47:53,579 --> 00:47:56,415
Each time a new
1053
00:47:53,579 --> 00:47:56,415
priest was ordained,
1054
00:47:56,457 --> 00:47:59,669
then you had the
1055
00:47:56,457 --> 00:47:59,669
center of a community.
1056
00:47:59,711 --> 00:48:02,254
He was trying to
1057
00:47:59,711 --> 00:48:02,254
create small communities
1058
00:48:02,296 --> 00:48:06,133
of Christians because
1059
00:48:02,296 --> 00:48:06,133
that is how Christianity
1060
00:48:06,175 --> 00:48:08,427
spread through the Roman Empire.
1061
00:48:09,846 --> 00:48:11,972
[narrator]
1062
00:48:09,846 --> 00:48:11,972
As Patrick's ministry grew,
1063
00:48:12,014 --> 00:48:14,099
he trained other clerics
1064
00:48:12,014 --> 00:48:14,099
to continue his work
1065
00:48:14,141 --> 00:48:16,268
and went on to the
1066
00:48:14,141 --> 00:48:16,268
next community.
1067
00:48:17,770 --> 00:48:19,689
[Charles] As that went on
1068
00:48:17,770 --> 00:48:19,689
year after year after year,
1069
00:48:19,731 --> 00:48:22,066
his mission was
1070
00:48:19,731 --> 00:48:22,066
extremely successful.
1071
00:48:25,486 --> 00:48:30,241
And so it shall be in the
1072
00:48:25,486 --> 00:48:30,241
last days, says the Lord,
1073
00:48:30,282 --> 00:48:35,538
that I will pour out my
1074
00:48:30,282 --> 00:48:35,538
Spirit upon all flesh
1075
00:48:35,580 --> 00:48:38,624
and your sons and your
1076
00:48:35,580 --> 00:48:38,624
daughters shall prophesy,
1077
00:48:40,125 --> 00:48:44,213
and your young men
1078
00:48:40,125 --> 00:48:44,213
shall see visions,
1079
00:48:44,255 --> 00:48:48,384
and your old men
1080
00:48:44,255 --> 00:48:48,384
shall dream dreams;
1081
00:48:48,426 --> 00:48:53,347
and indeed, in that
1082
00:48:48,426 --> 00:48:53,347
time on my manservants
1083
00:48:53,389 --> 00:48:57,976
and my maidservants I
1084
00:48:53,389 --> 00:48:57,976
will pour out my Spirit;
1085
00:48:58,977 --> 00:49:00,271
and they shall prophesy.
1086
00:49:06,527 --> 00:49:09,614
The bread of heaven
1087
00:49:06,527 --> 00:49:09,614
in Christ Jesus.
1088
00:49:09,655 --> 00:49:11,616
[woman] Amen.
1089
00:49:11,657 --> 00:49:13,910
[Patrick] How has this
1090
00:49:11,657 --> 00:49:13,910
happened in Ireland?
1091
00:49:13,950 --> 00:49:19,707
Never before did they know
1092
00:49:13,950 --> 00:49:19,707
of God except to serve idols
1093
00:49:19,749 --> 00:49:21,125
and unclean things.
1094
00:49:24,211 --> 00:49:26,631
Yet recently, what a change.
1095
00:49:31,218 --> 00:49:33,679
[Billy] Christianity was
1096
00:49:31,218 --> 00:49:33,679
beginning to take hold.
1097
00:49:33,721 --> 00:49:35,807
That's the transformation
1098
00:49:33,721 --> 00:49:35,807
he marvels at.
1099
00:49:35,848 --> 00:49:38,935
And he's saying, "Listen,
1100
00:49:35,848 --> 00:49:38,935
don't believe the evidence
1101
00:49:38,975 --> 00:49:42,396
of my word only,
1102
00:49:38,975 --> 00:49:42,396
look what's happening."
1103
00:49:42,438 --> 00:49:45,650
[all chattering]
1104
00:49:45,691 --> 00:49:47,318
[Patrick, voiceover]
1105
00:49:45,691 --> 00:49:47,318
They have become
1106
00:49:47,359 --> 00:49:49,111
a prepared people of the Lord,
1107
00:49:49,153 --> 00:49:53,324
and they are now
1108
00:49:49,153 --> 00:49:53,324
called sons of God.
1109
00:49:53,365 --> 00:49:55,992
And the Irish leaders'
1110
00:49:53,365 --> 00:49:55,992
sons and daughters
1111
00:49:56,034 --> 00:50:00,790
are seen to become the
1112
00:49:56,034 --> 00:50:00,790
monks and virgins of Christ.
1113
00:50:02,291 --> 00:50:03,668
[laughing]
1114
00:50:03,709 --> 00:50:06,504
[bell ringing]
1115
00:50:08,380 --> 00:50:10,299
[dramatic orchestral music]
1116
00:50:10,341 --> 00:50:12,176
[narrator] But while
1117
00:50:10,341 --> 00:50:12,176
Patrick had great success
1118
00:50:12,217 --> 00:50:16,054
among the pagans in Ireland,
1119
00:50:12,217 --> 00:50:16,054
he quickly lost favor
1120
00:50:16,096 --> 00:50:18,182
with the Church
1121
00:50:16,096 --> 00:50:18,182
back in Britain.
1122
00:50:24,647 --> 00:50:28,776
Patrick is preaching the
1123
00:50:24,647 --> 00:50:28,776
Gospel in a way very different
1124
00:50:28,818 --> 00:50:30,319
to the way other Christians
1125
00:50:30,361 --> 00:50:32,905
are preaching
1126
00:50:30,361 --> 00:50:32,905
the Gospel in Ireland.
1127
00:50:32,947 --> 00:50:34,907
There were rules
1128
00:50:32,947 --> 00:50:34,907
and stipulations
1129
00:50:34,949 --> 00:50:36,534
by the church at the time.
1130
00:50:36,575 --> 00:50:38,828
Bishops were not to stray out
1131
00:50:38,870 --> 00:50:42,164
beyond their own dioceses or
1132
00:50:38,870 --> 00:50:42,164
own areas of responsibility.
1133
00:50:42,206 --> 00:50:45,751
In Patrick we see
1134
00:50:42,206 --> 00:50:45,751
something different.
1135
00:50:45,793 --> 00:50:47,712
[narrator] It's also believed
1136
00:50:45,793 --> 00:50:47,712
that Patrick ministered
1137
00:50:47,753 --> 00:50:50,339
in the Irish language
1138
00:50:47,753 --> 00:50:50,339
instead of Latin
1139
00:50:50,381 --> 00:50:51,924
and established
1140
00:50:50,381 --> 00:50:51,924
many monasteries
1141
00:50:51,966 --> 00:50:54,635
for the ordination
1142
00:50:51,966 --> 00:50:54,635
of uneducated people.
1143
00:50:55,887 --> 00:50:58,305
I mean, who is this
1144
00:50:55,887 --> 00:50:58,305
man to do such things?
1145
00:50:59,264 --> 00:51:00,725
And who does he think he is?
1146
00:51:04,603 --> 00:51:06,772
[narrator] Patrick's
1147
00:51:04,603 --> 00:51:06,772
superiors started digging
1148
00:51:06,814 --> 00:51:10,150
for anything they could
1149
00:51:06,814 --> 00:51:10,150
find to discredit him.
1150
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,992
[Patrick] On one occasion,
1151
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,992
a blessed Irish woman
1152
00:51:18,034 --> 00:51:23,039
of noble birth whom I had
1153
00:51:18,034 --> 00:51:23,039
baptized came back to us.
1154
00:51:23,831 --> 00:51:25,041
I must see Patrick.
1155
00:51:34,383 --> 00:51:36,010
What brings you here, child?
1156
00:51:37,302 --> 00:51:39,471
I received a divine
1157
00:51:37,302 --> 00:51:39,471
revelation from a messenger
1158
00:51:39,513 --> 00:51:43,392
of God who advised me to
1159
00:51:39,513 --> 00:51:43,392
become a virgin of Christ.
1160
00:51:43,434 --> 00:51:45,352
Thanks be to God.
1161
00:51:45,394 --> 00:51:49,523
[Thomas] If a woman decides to
1162
00:51:45,394 --> 00:51:49,523
become a virgin, a female monk,
1163
00:51:49,565 --> 00:51:53,235
she can only do that with
1164
00:51:49,565 --> 00:51:53,235
the permission of her father.
1165
00:51:53,277 --> 00:51:57,656
They have brought this
1166
00:51:53,277 --> 00:51:57,656
girl up and this girl
1167
00:51:57,698 --> 00:52:02,620
is now no benefit to
1168
00:51:57,698 --> 00:52:02,620
the family at all.
1169
00:52:02,661 --> 00:52:04,496
[Patrick, voiceover] This, of
1170
00:52:02,661 --> 00:52:04,496
course, is not to the liking
1171
00:52:04,538 --> 00:52:07,625
of their fathers and they
1172
00:52:04,538 --> 00:52:07,625
have to suffer persecutions
1173
00:52:07,666 --> 00:52:10,920
and false accusations
1174
00:52:07,666 --> 00:52:10,920
from their parents.
1175
00:52:10,962 --> 00:52:13,005
God has called
1176
00:52:10,962 --> 00:52:13,005
me to serve Him.
1177
00:52:14,590 --> 00:52:17,718
[speaking foreign language]
1178
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,053
Go home.
1179
00:52:19,095 --> 00:52:23,057
[dramatic orchestral music]
1180
00:52:26,142 --> 00:52:29,981
[speaking foreign language]
1181
00:52:32,316 --> 00:52:33,943
[Patrick, voiceover]
1182
00:52:32,316 --> 00:52:33,943
Yet despite this,
1183
00:52:33,985 --> 00:52:36,528
their number keeps increasing.
1184
00:52:36,570 --> 00:52:38,990
[vocalizing]
1185
00:52:43,035 --> 00:52:44,954
[narrator] Another
1186
00:52:43,035 --> 00:52:44,954
challenge Patrick faced
1187
00:52:44,996 --> 00:52:48,248
was protecting his Irish
1188
00:52:44,996 --> 00:52:48,248
converts from slave traders.
1189
00:52:48,290 --> 00:52:51,167
In his second writing,
1190
00:52:48,290 --> 00:52:51,167
the Epistola,
1191
00:52:51,209 --> 00:52:52,878
Patrick responds to the attacks
1192
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:56,132
of a British warlord
1193
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:56,132
named Coroticus.
1194
00:52:58,258 --> 00:53:01,303
He is a slaver who has
1195
00:52:58,258 --> 00:53:01,303
taken some of the people
1196
00:53:01,345 --> 00:53:04,222
that Patrick has
1197
00:53:01,345 --> 00:53:04,222
converted to Christianity.
1198
00:53:04,264 --> 00:53:08,894
And his men killed many
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00:53:04,264 --> 00:53:08,894
people because people
1200
00:53:08,936 --> 00:53:12,356
don't go willingly into slavery.
1201
00:53:12,397 --> 00:53:17,653
-[dramatic orchestral music]
1202
00:53:12,397 --> 00:53:17,653
-[vocalizing]
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00:53:23,241 --> 00:53:25,703
[Patrick, voiceover]
1204
00:53:23,241 --> 00:53:25,703
They are blood-stained;
1205
00:53:25,744 --> 00:53:27,538
blood-stained with the blood
1206
00:53:27,579 --> 00:53:30,666
of innocent Christians,
1207
00:53:30,708 --> 00:53:33,752
whose numbers I have
1208
00:53:30,708 --> 00:53:33,752
given birth to in God
1209
00:53:33,794 --> 00:53:35,838
and confirmed in Christ.
1210
00:53:38,256 --> 00:53:40,843
[vocalizing]
1211
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:19,715
I sent a letter by a holy
1212
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:19,715
priest, with clerics,
1213
00:54:19,757 --> 00:54:22,551
to ask that Coroticus
1214
00:54:19,757 --> 00:54:22,551
and his men return to us
1215
00:54:22,593 --> 00:54:25,763
some of the baptized
1216
00:54:22,593 --> 00:54:25,763
prisoners they had captured.
1217
00:54:26,889 --> 00:54:28,224
They scoffed at them.
1218
00:54:30,226 --> 00:54:33,269
[Father Swan] The people who
1219
00:54:30,226 --> 00:54:33,269
were responsible for
1220
00:54:30,226 --> 00:54:33,269
the slaughter
1221
00:54:33,311 --> 00:54:36,190
of his newly baptized Christians
1222
00:54:33,311 --> 00:54:36,190
were nominally Christian,
1223
00:54:36,232 --> 00:54:39,151
which gives him the authority
1224
00:54:36,232 --> 00:54:39,151
to excommunicate them,
1225
00:54:39,193 --> 00:54:41,153
to declare what
1226
00:54:39,193 --> 00:54:41,153
was already true,
1227
00:54:41,195 --> 00:54:43,781
basically the people who
1228
00:54:41,195 --> 00:54:43,781
are responsible for murder
1229
00:54:43,822 --> 00:54:45,741
can no longer be
1230
00:54:43,822 --> 00:54:45,741
called Christian.
1231
00:54:45,783 --> 00:54:48,410
Patrick, by
1232
00:54:45,783 --> 00:54:48,410
writing this letter,
1233
00:54:48,452 --> 00:54:51,247
is making a formal
1234
00:54:48,452 --> 00:54:51,247
statement, which says,
1235
00:54:51,287 --> 00:54:55,126
"Coroticus, unless you
1236
00:54:51,287 --> 00:54:55,126
change, you are damned.
1237
00:54:56,668 --> 00:54:59,713
And God will back
1238
00:54:56,668 --> 00:54:59,713
me on this one!"
1239
00:55:01,632 --> 00:55:03,341
[Patrick]
1240
00:55:01,632 --> 00:55:03,341
The church mourns
1241
00:55:03,383 --> 00:55:05,385
and weeps for its
1242
00:55:03,383 --> 00:55:05,385
sons and daughters
1243
00:55:05,427 --> 00:55:09,765
who were taken away and
1244
00:55:05,427 --> 00:55:09,765
exported to far distant lands,
1245
00:55:09,807 --> 00:55:14,019
where grave sin openly
1246
00:55:09,807 --> 00:55:14,019
flourishes without shame,
1247
00:55:14,061 --> 00:55:17,648
where freeborn people
1248
00:55:14,061 --> 00:55:17,648
have been sold off,
1249
00:55:17,689 --> 00:55:20,692
Christians reduced to slavery.
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00:55:26,907 --> 00:55:29,367
[sobbing]
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I do not know what to say,
1252
00:56:12,870 --> 00:56:17,875
or how I can say any more,
1253
00:56:17,916 --> 00:56:21,670
about the children
1254
00:56:17,916 --> 00:56:21,670
of God who are dead,
1255
00:56:24,215 --> 00:56:26,342
whom the sword has
1256
00:56:24,215 --> 00:56:26,342
touched so cruelly.
1257
00:56:29,594 --> 00:56:34,766
All I can do is what is written:
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00:56:29,594 --> 00:56:34,766
"Weep with those who weep";
1259
00:56:36,643 --> 00:56:41,023
and again: "If one
1260
00:56:36,643 --> 00:56:41,023
member suffers pain,
1261
00:56:43,067 --> 00:56:45,527
let all the members
1262
00:56:43,067 --> 00:56:45,527
suffer the pain with it."
1263
00:56:56,121 --> 00:56:58,082
[Patrick, voiceover]
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00:56:56,121 --> 00:56:58,082
The evil of evil people
1265
00:56:58,123 --> 00:57:00,458
has prevailed over us.
1266
00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:04,546
We have been made as if we
1267
00:57:00,500 --> 00:57:04,546
were complete outsiders.
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00:57:04,588 --> 00:57:09,093
For them, it is a disgrace
1269
00:57:04,588 --> 00:57:09,093
that we are from Ireland.
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00:57:11,678 --> 00:57:15,099
[Charles] He said, "They hate us
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00:57:11,678 --> 00:57:15,099
because we are Irish."
1272
00:57:15,140 --> 00:57:17,268
That's extraordinary.
1273
00:57:17,309 --> 00:57:19,603
That Patrick had come to
1274
00:57:17,309 --> 00:57:19,603
feel himself to be just
1275
00:57:19,644 --> 00:57:21,813
as Irish as his followers.
1276
00:57:25,567 --> 00:57:28,320
Let it be read
1277
00:57:25,567 --> 00:57:28,320
before all the people,
1278
00:57:28,362 --> 00:57:31,365
especially in the presence
1279
00:57:28,362 --> 00:57:31,365
of Coroticus himself.
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00:57:34,534 --> 00:57:37,537
God may inspire them to come
1281
00:57:34,534 --> 00:57:37,537
back to their right senses,
1282
00:57:38,914 --> 00:57:40,249
however late it may be.
1283
00:57:44,002 --> 00:57:45,837
[Elizabeth] Unfortunately,
1284
00:57:44,002 --> 00:57:45,837
we simply don't know
1285
00:57:45,879 --> 00:57:48,090
if Coroticus returned
1286
00:57:45,879 --> 00:57:48,090
any of the slaves.
1287
00:57:48,132 --> 00:57:51,009
And I think it's probably
1288
00:57:48,132 --> 00:57:51,009
unlikely that he did.
1289
00:57:51,051 --> 00:57:53,262
But simply that is
1290
00:57:51,051 --> 00:57:53,262
something that the sources
1291
00:57:53,304 --> 00:57:55,347
just don't show us.
1292
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:02,229
[light orchestral music]
1293
00:58:06,024 --> 00:58:09,694
[Patrick, voiceover] I wish
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00:58:06,024 --> 00:58:09,694
to leave them to go to Britain.
1295
00:58:09,736 --> 00:58:13,490
I would willingly do this,
1296
00:58:09,736 --> 00:58:13,490
and I am prepared for this,
1297
00:58:13,531 --> 00:58:17,786
as if to visit my home
1298
00:58:13,531 --> 00:58:17,786
country and my parents.
1299
00:58:17,828 --> 00:58:20,289
Not only that, but I
1300
00:58:17,828 --> 00:58:20,289
would like to go to Gaul
1301
00:58:20,331 --> 00:58:23,041
to visit the brothers
1302
00:58:20,331 --> 00:58:23,041
and see the faces
1303
00:58:23,083 --> 00:58:25,961
of the saints of my Lord.
1304
00:58:26,003 --> 00:58:29,965
God knows what I would
1305
00:58:26,003 --> 00:58:29,965
dearly like to do.
1306
00:58:31,633 --> 00:58:36,054
But I am bound in the
1307
00:58:31,633 --> 00:58:36,054
Spirit, who assures me
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00:58:36,096 --> 00:58:42,227
that if I were to do this,
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00:58:36,096 --> 00:58:42,227
I would be held guilty.
1310
00:58:42,269 --> 00:58:45,689
And I fear, also, to lose
1311
00:58:42,269 --> 00:58:45,689
the work which I began,
1312
00:58:45,730 --> 00:58:51,903
not so much I, but Christ
1313
00:58:45,730 --> 00:58:51,903
the Lord, who told me
1314
00:58:51,945 --> 00:58:54,572
to come here to be
1315
00:58:51,945 --> 00:58:54,572
with these people
1316
00:58:54,614 --> 00:58:56,492
for the rest of my life.
1317
00:59:02,122 --> 00:59:05,000
Tell us this secret
1318
00:59:02,122 --> 00:59:05,000
you know about Patrick.
1319
00:59:06,418 --> 00:59:09,296
Patrick isn't the
1320
00:59:06,418 --> 00:59:09,296
man people think he is.
1321
00:59:12,883 --> 00:59:15,344
He's committed
1322
00:59:12,883 --> 00:59:15,344
unpardonable sins.
1323
00:59:18,972 --> 00:59:20,598
Tell me everything you know.
1324
00:59:21,558 --> 00:59:25,229
[dramatic orchestral music]
1325
00:59:27,189 --> 00:59:29,066
[narrator] As Patrick's
1326
00:59:27,189 --> 00:59:29,066
mission expanded
1327
00:59:29,107 --> 00:59:31,818
throughout Ireland,
1328
00:59:29,107 --> 00:59:31,818
he wandered between territories
1329
00:59:31,860 --> 00:59:33,820
owned by different tribes.
1330
00:59:38,534 --> 00:59:41,786
[Billy] A lot of those tribes
1331
00:59:38,534 --> 00:59:41,786
were at war or at least
1332
00:59:41,828 --> 00:59:43,621
at rivalry with each other.
1333
00:59:43,663 --> 00:59:47,042
The whole country of Ireland
1334
00:59:43,663 --> 00:59:47,042
was certainly not unified.
1335
00:59:50,546 --> 00:59:53,507
[narrator] Crossing
1336
00:59:50,546 --> 00:59:53,507
territorial boundaries
1337
00:59:50,546 --> 00:59:53,507
was dangerous.
1338
00:59:53,549 --> 00:59:56,676
The only people who were able
1339
00:59:53,549 --> 00:59:56,676
to travel freely were poets,
1340
00:59:56,718 --> 00:59:59,179
tribal leaders and their sons.
1341
01:00:01,014 --> 01:00:02,766
Patrick talks about
1342
01:00:01,014 --> 01:00:02,766
traveling with the sons
1343
01:00:02,807 --> 01:00:06,061
of petty kings, probably
1344
01:00:02,807 --> 01:00:06,061
as a kind of bodyguard.
1345
01:00:06,103 --> 01:00:08,355
But also, as people he
1346
01:00:06,103 --> 01:00:08,355
was educating as he moved
1347
01:00:08,397 --> 01:00:09,731
about the countryside.
1348
01:00:12,609 --> 01:00:15,112
[Patrick, voiceover]
1349
01:00:12,609 --> 01:00:15,112
Every day there is the chance
1350
01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:20,158
that I will be killed,
1351
01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:20,158
surrounded, or taken
1352
01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:20,158
into slavery,
1353
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:21,910
or some other such happening.
1354
01:00:36,341 --> 01:00:40,262
[speaking foreign language]
1355
01:00:46,268 --> 01:00:49,354
[light harp music]
1356
01:01:00,031 --> 01:01:02,618
What brings you back, Roman?
1357
01:01:03,494 --> 01:01:06,163
We come in peace.
1358
01:01:06,204 --> 01:01:08,957
[Patrick, voiceover]
1359
01:01:06,204 --> 01:01:08,957
Sometimes I gave presents
1360
01:01:06,204 --> 01:01:08,957
to kings,
1361
01:01:08,999 --> 01:01:11,376
over and above the
1362
01:01:08,999 --> 01:01:11,376
wages I gave their sons
1363
01:01:11,418 --> 01:01:13,753
who traveled with me.
1364
01:01:13,795 --> 01:01:14,963
[Elva] They're a bit like gangs.
1365
01:01:15,005 --> 01:01:17,007
He has to pay protection money.
1366
01:01:17,048 --> 01:01:19,092
[Thomas] And of course,
1367
01:01:17,048 --> 01:01:19,092
that is always going to be seen
1368
01:01:19,134 --> 01:01:22,346
as problematic,
1369
01:01:19,134 --> 01:01:22,346
because it's no more than
1370
01:01:22,387 --> 01:01:24,055
greasing the wheels.
1371
01:01:27,892 --> 01:01:29,019
Is this all?
1372
01:01:29,060 --> 01:01:32,730
[ominous orchestral music]
1373
01:01:35,275 --> 01:01:36,818
Take him.
1374
01:01:39,696 --> 01:01:41,198
[Patrick, voiceover]
1375
01:01:39,696 --> 01:01:41,198
On that day
1376
01:01:41,239 --> 01:01:43,575
they avidly sought to kill me.
1377
01:01:43,617 --> 01:01:45,785
[grunting]
1378
01:01:48,955 --> 01:01:50,374
[grunting]
1379
01:01:50,415 --> 01:01:52,250
[yelling]
1380
01:01:53,460 --> 01:01:54,628
[grunting]
1381
01:01:54,670 --> 01:01:56,213
Enough!
1382
01:01:56,254 --> 01:01:58,340
[Patrick, voiceover]
1383
01:01:56,254 --> 01:01:58,340
But the time had not yet come.
1384
01:02:04,804 --> 01:02:07,182
[exhaling]
1385
01:02:10,561 --> 01:02:15,773
Still they looted us,
1386
01:02:10,561 --> 01:02:15,773
took everything of value,
1387
01:02:15,815 --> 01:02:17,317
and bound me in iron.
1388
01:02:21,154 --> 01:02:24,658
On the 14th day,
1389
01:02:21,154 --> 01:02:24,658
the Lord set me free
1390
01:02:24,700 --> 01:02:29,037
from their power; all our
1391
01:02:24,700 --> 01:02:29,037
possessions were returned
1392
01:02:29,079 --> 01:02:31,122
to us for God's sake
1393
01:02:31,164 --> 01:02:35,293
and for the sake of the close
1394
01:02:31,164 --> 01:02:35,293
friendship we had previously.
1395
01:02:43,093 --> 01:02:47,097
This is who we
1396
01:02:43,093 --> 01:02:47,097
confess and adore,
1397
01:02:47,138 --> 01:02:50,767
[all] One God in
1398
01:02:47,138 --> 01:02:50,767
Trinity of sacred name.
1399
01:02:50,808 --> 01:02:52,269
Amen.
1400
01:02:53,562 --> 01:02:55,188
[Tim] He'd make
1401
01:02:53,562 --> 01:02:55,188
a congregation.
1402
01:02:55,230 --> 01:02:56,773
He'd go to the next
1403
01:02:55,230 --> 01:02:56,773
little place where
1404
01:02:56,814 --> 01:02:59,067
they didn't
1405
01:02:56,814 --> 01:02:59,067
like the look of him,
1406
01:02:59,109 --> 01:03:00,652
and the same thing would
1407
01:02:59,109 --> 01:03:00,652
happen all over again.
1408
01:03:00,694 --> 01:03:02,153
So he's imprisoned many times.
1409
01:03:02,195 --> 01:03:05,865
[dramatic orchestral music]
1410
01:03:05,907 --> 01:03:07,743
[narrator] Patrick
1411
01:03:05,907 --> 01:03:07,743
also had to strike deals
1412
01:03:07,784 --> 01:03:11,663
with a group of people
1413
01:03:07,784 --> 01:03:11,663
he calls judges.
1414
01:03:11,705 --> 01:03:13,373
[Elva] Patrick,
1415
01:03:11,705 --> 01:03:13,373
very interestingly,
1416
01:03:13,415 --> 01:03:15,584
does not say
1417
01:03:13,415 --> 01:03:15,584
who the judges are.
1418
01:03:15,626 --> 01:03:18,002
I think he's making
1419
01:03:15,626 --> 01:03:18,002
deals with local druids,
1420
01:03:18,044 --> 01:03:20,297
that he's asking
1421
01:03:18,044 --> 01:03:20,297
them for safe passage
1422
01:03:20,338 --> 01:03:22,173
through their territories.
1423
01:03:22,215 --> 01:03:23,883
He's probably asking
1424
01:03:22,215 --> 01:03:23,883
them for permission
1425
01:03:23,925 --> 01:03:25,510
to engage in preaching.
1426
01:03:29,180 --> 01:03:31,015
[narrator] The druids
1427
01:03:29,180 --> 01:03:31,015
were a powerful force
1428
01:03:31,057 --> 01:03:32,643
in fifth century Ireland.
1429
01:03:32,684 --> 01:03:34,311
These Celtic religious leaders
1430
01:03:34,352 --> 01:03:36,187
were part of a pagan priesthood
1431
01:03:36,229 --> 01:03:39,232
that supervised sacred rites,
1432
01:03:36,229 --> 01:03:39,232
presided over public
1433
01:03:39,274 --> 01:03:43,278
and private disputes,
1434
01:03:39,274 --> 01:03:43,278
and were said to be prophets.
1435
01:03:45,155 --> 01:03:47,198
I suppose they would
1436
01:03:45,155 --> 01:03:47,198
have been the people
1437
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:48,950
that Patrick would
1438
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:48,950
have been facing.
1439
01:03:48,992 --> 01:03:52,454
They would have been the rivals
1440
01:03:48,992 --> 01:03:52,454
to Patrick's new ministry.
1441
01:03:55,290 --> 01:03:56,500
You do get the impression
1442
01:03:56,541 --> 01:03:58,293
that there must have
1443
01:03:56,541 --> 01:03:58,293
been many clashes.
1444
01:04:00,128 --> 01:04:02,964
[goat bleating]
1445
01:04:07,719 --> 01:04:10,555
[narrator] Legend has it
1446
01:04:07,719 --> 01:04:10,555
that such a clash happened
1447
01:04:10,597 --> 01:04:12,516
on the Hill of Slane.
1448
01:04:12,557 --> 01:04:15,143
Patrick's seventh century
1449
01:04:12,557 --> 01:04:15,143
biographer Muirchú
1450
01:04:15,185 --> 01:04:19,773
tells how Patrick opposed the
1451
01:04:15,185 --> 01:04:19,773
druids, and defied a king.
1452
01:04:23,694 --> 01:04:26,237
[Patrick, voiceover] They held
1453
01:04:23,694 --> 01:04:26,237
and celebrated their
1454
01:04:23,694 --> 01:04:26,237
pagan feast
1455
01:04:26,279 --> 01:04:30,784
on the same night on which
1456
01:04:26,279 --> 01:04:30,784
holy Patrick celebrated Easter.
1457
01:04:30,826 --> 01:04:33,953
They also had a custom, which
1458
01:04:30,826 --> 01:04:33,953
was announced to all publicly,
1459
01:04:33,995 --> 01:04:37,499
that whoever lit a fire on
1460
01:04:33,995 --> 01:04:37,499
that night before it was lit
1461
01:04:37,541 --> 01:04:41,670
in the king's house,
1462
01:04:37,541 --> 01:04:41,670
would have forfeited his life.
1463
01:04:53,515 --> 01:04:55,767
It shone in the
1464
01:04:53,515 --> 01:04:55,767
night and it was seen
1465
01:04:55,809 --> 01:04:59,771
by almost all of the people
1466
01:04:55,809 --> 01:04:59,771
who lived in the plain,
1467
01:04:59,813 --> 01:05:03,525
and as they saw it they all
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01:04:59,813 --> 01:05:03,525
gazed at it and wondered.
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01:05:06,277 --> 01:05:10,114
[dramatic orchestral music]
1470
01:05:20,751 --> 01:05:24,128
Who is the man who has dared
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01:05:20,751 --> 01:05:24,128
to do such a wicked thing
1472
01:05:24,170 --> 01:05:25,505
in my kingdom?
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01:05:28,466 --> 01:05:30,677
We do not know
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01:05:28,466 --> 01:05:30,677
who has done this,
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01:05:32,303 --> 01:05:35,265
King, may you live forever!
1476
01:05:37,100 --> 01:05:40,103
Unless this fire which
1477
01:05:37,100 --> 01:05:40,103
we see is extinguished
1478
01:05:40,144 --> 01:05:41,897
on this same night on
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01:05:40,144 --> 01:05:41,897
which it has been lit,
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01:05:41,938 --> 01:05:44,399
then it will never be
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01:05:41,938 --> 01:05:44,399
extinguished at all
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01:05:46,109 --> 01:05:49,987
and it will spread
1483
01:05:46,109 --> 01:05:49,987
over the whole country
1484
01:05:50,029 --> 01:05:53,658
and it will reign
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01:05:50,029 --> 01:05:53,658
in all eternity.
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01:05:58,996 --> 01:06:00,916
[Billy] It's a prophecy
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01:06:00,957 --> 01:06:03,752
that the light of
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01:06:00,957 --> 01:06:03,752
Christianity triumphs
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01:06:03,794 --> 01:06:07,964
over every evil,
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01:06:03,794 --> 01:06:07,964
over every secular authority.
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01:06:08,005 --> 01:06:10,508
And the fire would
1492
01:06:08,005 --> 01:06:10,508
never go out.
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01:06:21,394 --> 01:06:24,021
I think we should
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01:06:21,394 --> 01:06:24,021
continue to move northwest
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01:06:24,063 --> 01:06:27,150
and eventually be able
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01:06:24,063 --> 01:06:27,150
to split up and cross
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01:06:27,191 --> 01:06:28,401
into higher country.
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01:06:33,323 --> 01:06:35,116
My dear friends.
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01:06:35,158 --> 01:06:36,827
Such a surprise to see you.
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01:06:39,329 --> 01:06:41,122
[Patrick, voiceover]
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01:06:39,329 --> 01:06:41,122
They came and put my sins
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01:06:41,164 --> 01:06:44,334
against my hard
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01:06:41,164 --> 01:06:44,334
work as a bishop.
1504
01:06:44,375 --> 01:06:46,377
The charge they
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01:06:44,375 --> 01:06:46,377
brought against me
1506
01:06:46,419 --> 01:06:49,464
was something from
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01:06:46,419 --> 01:06:49,464
30 years earlier,
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01:06:49,506 --> 01:06:53,301
which I had admitted
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01:06:49,506 --> 01:06:53,301
before I was even a deacon.
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01:06:53,343 --> 01:06:54,845
I am a sinner.
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01:06:54,886 --> 01:06:56,721
Patrick isn't the
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01:06:54,886 --> 01:06:56,721
man people think he is.
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01:06:56,763 --> 01:06:58,139
[Patrick] I must
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01:06:56,763 --> 01:06:58,139
confess what I have done.
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01:06:58,181 --> 01:06:59,474
He's committed
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01:06:58,181 --> 01:06:59,474
unpardonable sins.
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01:06:59,516 --> 01:07:00,642
[Patrick] Am I ever
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01:06:59,516 --> 01:07:00,642
to be forgiven?
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01:07:00,684 --> 01:07:02,059
Tell me everything you know.
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01:07:04,980 --> 01:07:06,523
[Billy] This friend of his
1521
01:07:06,564 --> 01:07:08,483
disclosed the sin of Patrick
1522
01:07:08,525 --> 01:07:12,654
and that this has been
1523
01:07:08,525 --> 01:07:12,654
used to discredit him.
1524
01:07:21,830 --> 01:07:24,123
[Patrick, voiceover]
1525
01:07:21,830 --> 01:07:24,123
This hit me very hard,
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01:07:24,165 --> 01:07:27,669
so much so that it seemed
1527
01:07:24,165 --> 01:07:27,669
I was about to fall,
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01:07:27,711 --> 01:07:30,296
both here and in eternity.
1529
01:07:45,937 --> 01:07:48,147
[grunting]
1530
01:07:48,189 --> 01:07:50,692
[screaming]
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01:07:52,569 --> 01:07:57,198
[dramatic orchestral music]
1532
01:07:57,240 --> 01:08:00,994
I am very sorry for
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01:07:57,240 --> 01:08:00,994
my dearest friend,
1534
01:08:03,329 --> 01:08:07,542
to whom I trusted even my soul.
1535
01:08:19,470 --> 01:08:23,850
That same night I saw in a
1536
01:08:19,470 --> 01:08:23,850
vision some writing before
1537
01:08:19,470 --> 01:08:23,850
my dishonored face.
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01:08:25,602 --> 01:08:27,604
[God] We have seen
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01:08:25,602 --> 01:08:27,604
with anger the face
1540
01:08:27,645 --> 01:08:31,024
of our chosen one with his
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01:08:27,645 --> 01:08:31,024
name laid bare of respect.
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01:08:37,154 --> 01:08:38,406
[Patrick, voiceover]
1543
01:08:37,154 --> 01:08:38,406
God did not say,
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01:08:38,448 --> 01:08:40,241
you have seen with anger,
1545
01:08:40,283 --> 01:08:43,828
but "we have seen
1546
01:08:40,283 --> 01:08:43,828
with anger" as if
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01:08:43,870 --> 01:08:46,664
in this matter He
1548
01:08:43,870 --> 01:08:46,664
were joined to me.
1549
01:08:53,588 --> 01:08:55,172
Patrick,
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01:08:57,092 --> 01:08:58,301
the boat is ready,
1551
01:08:59,176 --> 01:09:00,511
and it's time to go.
1552
01:09:01,429 --> 01:09:05,266
[dramatic orchestral music]
1553
01:09:12,231 --> 01:09:14,109
I am not finished.
1554
01:09:30,125 --> 01:09:31,375
Damn him!
1555
01:09:35,171 --> 01:09:38,049
He powerfully came to my aid
1556
01:09:38,091 --> 01:09:44,221
in this battering so
1557
01:09:38,091 --> 01:09:44,221
that I did not slip badly
1558
01:09:44,263 --> 01:09:48,518
into the wreckage of
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01:09:44,263 --> 01:09:48,518
sin and into infamy.
1560
01:09:52,730 --> 01:09:54,231
I pray God
1561
01:09:56,233 --> 01:10:03,199
that it may not be charged
1562
01:09:56,233 --> 01:10:03,199
against them as sin.
1563
01:10:05,743 --> 01:10:07,411
Amen.
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01:10:12,959 --> 01:10:16,838
[dramatic orchestral music]
1565
01:10:19,007 --> 01:10:20,884
[narrator] As
1566
01:10:19,007 --> 01:10:20,884
Patrick got older,
1567
01:10:20,925 --> 01:10:23,636
criticism of his mission
1568
01:10:20,925 --> 01:10:23,636
and methods had only grown,
1569
01:10:23,678 --> 01:10:27,348
which prompted him to
1570
01:10:23,678 --> 01:10:27,348
write the Confessio.
1571
01:10:31,061 --> 01:10:33,104
[Patrick, voiceover] Maybe when
1572
01:10:31,061 --> 01:10:33,104
I baptized all those thousands,
1573
01:10:33,146 --> 01:10:36,440
I hoped to get even half
1574
01:10:33,146 --> 01:10:36,440
a penny from one of them?
1575
01:10:36,482 --> 01:10:40,862
Tell me and I will
1576
01:10:36,482 --> 01:10:40,862
return it to you!
1577
01:10:40,904 --> 01:10:43,656
Or when the Lord ordained
1578
01:10:40,904 --> 01:10:43,656
clergy everywhere through me
1579
01:10:43,698 --> 01:10:49,787
as his mediocre instrument,
1580
01:10:43,698 --> 01:10:49,787
and I gave my ministry
1581
01:10:49,829 --> 01:10:52,707
to them for free,
1582
01:10:49,829 --> 01:10:52,707
did I even charge them
1583
01:10:52,749 --> 01:10:56,127
the cost of my shoes?
1584
01:10:56,169 --> 01:11:01,132
Tell it against me and I will
1585
01:10:56,169 --> 01:11:01,132
all the more return it to you!
1586
01:11:06,262 --> 01:11:08,932
[Father Swan] He scrupulously
1587
01:11:06,262 --> 01:11:08,932
defends himself saying
1588
01:11:08,973 --> 01:11:11,308
that his motives and his reasons
1589
01:11:11,350 --> 01:11:14,520
for his presence in Ireland,
1590
01:11:11,350 --> 01:11:14,520
for his return to Ireland
1591
01:11:14,562 --> 01:11:16,689
was nothing except
1592
01:11:14,562 --> 01:11:16,689
that the Irish would come
1593
01:11:16,731 --> 01:11:19,609
to know Christ and come to
1594
01:11:16,731 --> 01:11:19,609
know the Father as he did.
1595
01:11:23,529 --> 01:11:25,573
[narrator] It's
1596
01:11:23,529 --> 01:11:25,573
believed that Patrick
1597
01:11:25,615 --> 01:11:28,201
was ordered to give up his
1598
01:11:25,615 --> 01:11:28,201
mission and return to Britain.
1599
01:11:30,078 --> 01:11:32,371
[Elva] Patrick
1600
01:11:30,078 --> 01:11:32,371
faces this question,
1601
01:11:32,413 --> 01:11:36,667
"If I'm not accepted by the
1602
01:11:32,413 --> 01:11:36,667
hierarchy of the British
1603
01:11:32,413 --> 01:11:36,667
Church,
1604
01:11:36,709 --> 01:11:40,671
is my mission something
1605
01:11:36,709 --> 01:11:40,671
which is acceptable?"
1606
01:11:45,218 --> 01:11:48,263
His ultimate line of
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01:11:45,218 --> 01:11:48,263
defense is to say,
1608
01:11:48,304 --> 01:11:50,598
"I'm carrying on
1609
01:11:48,304 --> 01:11:50,598
with my mission.
1610
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:52,683
I'm not going to
1611
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:52,683
go back to Britain
1612
01:11:52,725 --> 01:11:54,894
because I have been chosen
1613
01:11:52,725 --> 01:11:54,894
to be a bishop by God."
1614
01:12:03,569 --> 01:12:05,196
[Billy] Patrick went AWOL.
1615
01:12:06,447 --> 01:12:09,742
And we just don't know
1616
01:12:06,447 --> 01:12:09,742
how that all panned out.
1617
01:12:10,952 --> 01:12:13,704
He said that he wanted
1618
01:12:10,952 --> 01:12:13,704
to spend the rest
1619
01:12:13,746 --> 01:12:17,667
of his life in Ireland because
1620
01:12:13,746 --> 01:12:17,667
that's what God demanded.
1621
01:12:17,708 --> 01:12:21,296
Therefore, we've got to guess
1622
01:12:17,708 --> 01:12:21,296
that he never did go back.
1623
01:12:23,089 --> 01:12:26,301
[Patrick] I pray that
1624
01:12:23,089 --> 01:12:26,301
God give me perseverance,
1625
01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:29,470
and that he grant me to
1626
01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:29,470
bear faithful witness
1627
01:12:29,512 --> 01:12:34,017
to Him right up to my
1628
01:12:29,512 --> 01:12:34,017
passing from this life,
1629
01:12:34,058 --> 01:12:36,811
for the sake of my God.
1630
01:12:40,773 --> 01:12:42,150
[narrator] Patrick
1631
01:12:40,773 --> 01:12:42,150
died sometime
1632
01:12:42,192 --> 01:12:44,235
in the late fifth century.
1633
01:12:44,277 --> 01:12:46,737
The exact date, location,
1634
01:12:44,277 --> 01:12:46,737
and circumstances
1635
01:12:46,779 --> 01:12:48,823
of his death are unknown.
1636
01:12:51,201 --> 01:12:53,744
Later traditions claimed
1637
01:12:51,201 --> 01:12:53,744
that he died of old age
1638
01:12:53,786 --> 01:12:56,956
on March 17th, AD 461
1639
01:12:56,998 --> 01:12:59,542
and was buried in
1640
01:12:56,998 --> 01:12:59,542
Saul, Northern Ireland.
1641
01:13:00,584 --> 01:13:02,837
Nearby at Down Cathedral,
1642
01:13:02,879 --> 01:13:07,258
this granite slab marks the
1643
01:13:02,879 --> 01:13:07,258
traditional spot of his burial.
1644
01:13:07,300 --> 01:13:11,179
[dramatic orchestral music]
1645
01:13:18,435 --> 01:13:20,437
Not long after Patrick's death,
1646
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:23,733
the Roman Empire fell,
1647
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:23,733
and Western Europe drifted
1648
01:13:23,774 --> 01:13:25,776
into the Dark Ages.
1649
01:13:25,818 --> 01:13:28,487
But Patrick's work
1650
01:13:25,818 --> 01:13:28,487
was not in vain.
1651
01:13:32,033 --> 01:13:34,202
[Billy] As Christianity
1652
01:13:32,033 --> 01:13:34,202
established itself,
1653
01:13:34,244 --> 01:13:37,580
as it became more
1654
01:13:34,244 --> 01:13:37,580
vibrant, it became known
1655
01:13:37,621 --> 01:13:40,250
as the Land of Saints and
1656
01:13:37,621 --> 01:13:40,250
Scholars, and that led,
1657
01:13:40,291 --> 01:13:43,878
in turn, to a whole
1658
01:13:40,291 --> 01:13:43,878
proliferation of
1659
01:13:40,291 --> 01:13:43,878
Christian missionaries
1660
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:47,506
leaving Ireland and
1661
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:47,506
flooding continental Europe.
1662
01:13:51,427 --> 01:13:53,804
Patrick's story began
1663
01:13:51,427 --> 01:13:53,804
a chain of events
1664
01:13:53,846 --> 01:13:57,392
that is quite remarkable
1665
01:13:53,846 --> 01:13:57,392
in the impact that it had.
1666
01:14:01,187 --> 01:14:03,189
[Tim] He wore out many
1667
01:14:01,187 --> 01:14:03,189
more pairs of sandals
1668
01:14:03,231 --> 01:14:05,608
in death than he did in life.
1669
01:14:05,649 --> 01:14:07,902
And he's still going,
1670
01:14:05,649 --> 01:14:07,902
people are still reading
1671
01:14:05,649 --> 01:14:07,902
his Confession
1672
01:14:07,944 --> 01:14:10,654
and still being
1673
01:14:07,944 --> 01:14:10,654
interested in Christianity
1674
01:14:10,696 --> 01:14:12,740
because he wrote
1675
01:14:10,696 --> 01:14:12,740
his message down.
1676
01:14:24,961 --> 01:14:28,256
[Patrick, voiceover] I pray
1677
01:14:24,961 --> 01:14:28,256
for those who believe in
1678
01:14:28,298 --> 01:14:31,968
and have reverence for God.
1679
01:14:32,009 --> 01:14:36,389
Some of them may come upon
1680
01:14:32,009 --> 01:14:36,389
this writing which Patrick,
1681
01:14:36,431 --> 01:14:39,934
a sinner, wrote in Ireland.
1682
01:14:39,976 --> 01:14:43,479
May none of them ever say
1683
01:14:39,976 --> 01:14:43,479
that whatever little I did
1684
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:49,068
or made known to please God
1685
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:49,068
was done through ignorance.
1686
01:14:49,110 --> 01:14:53,656
Instead, you can judge
1687
01:14:49,110 --> 01:14:53,656
and believe in all truth
1688
01:14:53,697 --> 01:14:57,910
that it was a gift of God.
1689
01:14:59,745 --> 01:15:04,208
This is my confession
1690
01:14:59,745 --> 01:15:04,208
before I die.
1691
01:15:04,250 --> 01:15:08,087
[dramatic orchestral music]
1692
01:15:18,931 --> 01:15:22,768
[dramatic orchestral music]
1693
01:17:40,072 --> 01:17:42,658
[vocalizing]
1694
01:17:46,496 --> 01:17:50,333
[dramatic orchestral music]