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In the letter Patrick announces that he has excommunicated Coroticus's men. The identification of Coroticus with Ceretic Guletic is based largely on an 8th-century gloss to Patrick's letter. [ 2 ] It has been suggested that it was the sending of this letter which provoked the trial which Patrick mentions in the Confession . [ 3 ]
Two Latin works survive which are generally accepted as having been written by St. Patrick. These are the Declaration (Latin: Confessio) [8] and the Letter to the soldiers of Coroticus (Latin: Epistola), [9] from which come the only generally accepted details of his life. [10] The Declaration is the more biographical of the two. In it, Patrick ...
Early Irish literature, is commonly dated from the 8th or 9th to the 15th century, a period during which modern literature in Irish began to emerge. It stands as one of the oldest vernacular literature in Western Europe, with its roots extending back to late antiquity, as evident from inscriptions utilizing both Irish and Latin found on Ogham stones dating as early as the 4th century.
The Christianisation of southern Scotland, if Patrick's letter to Coroticus was indeed to a king in Strathclyde, had therefore made considerable progress when the first historical sources appear. Further south, at Whithorn, a Christian inscription is known from the second half of the 5th century, perhaps commemorating a new church. How this ...
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St. Patrick, who himself was captured and enslaved at one time, protested an attack that enslaved newly baptized Christians in his letter to the soldiers of Coroticus. [3] (p 43) The restoration of order and the growing power of the church slowly transmuted the late Roman slave system of Diocletian into serfdom. [citation needed]
[24] [25] (Saint Patrick was kidnapped from somewhere near the west coast of Great Britain about 400 CE and taken as a slave to Ireland, and his Letter to Coroticus complains about a murderous slave raid on Ireland from Great Britain.)
The document is valuable for containing early texts relating to St Patrick, the 7th century Irish bishop Tírechán, the Irish monk Muirchú. [1] The book contains some of the oldest surviving specimens of Old Irish and for being one of the earliest manuscripts produced by an insular church to contain a near complete copy of the New Testament .