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St. Patrick's Letter to Coroticus

St. Patrick's Letter to Coroticus

Update: 2025-03-171
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For this St. Patrick's Day, we finally present the last canonical text written by St. Patrick, his letter to Coroticus, completing the series we began in Episode 68 with the first half of Patrick's Confessio.
Today's Texts

Patrick. Epistola ad Coroticum. St. Patrick: His Writings and Life, edited and translated by Newport J.D. White, Macmillan, 1920, pp. 52-60. Google Books.

References

Kelly, David. "St Patrick's Writings: Confessio and Epistola." Saint Patrick's Confessio, Royal Irish Academy, 2011, www.confessio.ie/more/article_kelly#.

Audio Credit: Father Ted, "The Old Grey Whistle Theft," season 2, episode 4, written by Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews, 29 March 1996.

Chapters
00:00:00 Introduction
00:08:10 Text: Patrick, Epistola ad Coroticum
00:21:00 Commentary
00:24:07 Mystery Word: húrla-hárla
00:25:11 Outro
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