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  2. Ceretic Guletic - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Saint Patrick - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Book of Armagh - Wikipedia

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    The manuscript was once reputed to have belonged to St. Patrick and, at least in part, to be a product of his hand. Research has determined, however, that the earliest part of the manuscript was the work of a scribe named Ferdomnach of Armagh (died 845 or 846).

  5. Scotland in the Early Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The first is Coroticus or Ceretic (Ceredig), known as the recipient of a letter from Saint Patrick, and stated by a 7th-century biographer to have been king of the Height of the Clyde, Dumbarton Rock, placing him in the second half of the 5th century.

  6. Sub-Roman Britain - Wikipedia

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    Coroticus (or Ceretic) was an apostate Pict king who was the recipient of the letter from Saint Patrick. His base may have been Dumbarton Rock on the River Clyde, and his descendant Rhydderch Hael is named in the Life of Saint Columba .

  7. Fergus Mór - Wikipedia

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    These sources, while they offer evidence for the importance of Fergus Mór in Medieval times, are not evidence for his historical career. Indeed, only one king in the 6th century in Scotland is known from contemporary evidence, Ceretic of Alt Clut, and even this identification rests upon a later gloss to Saint Patrick's Letter to Coroticus.

  8. St Patrick’s Day 2024: What is the meaning behind the holiday?

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    In 1903, St Patrick’s Day became an official public holiday in Ireland. This year (and every year) it is celebrated on 17 March, but St Patrick’s Day 2024 falls on a Sunday.

  9. Kingdom of Strathclyde - Wikipedia

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    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 ...