St. Patrick and Celtic Christianity

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The story of St. Patrick and the transformation of pagan Irish culture into “the Island of Saints and Scholars.” The Irish became the best scholars in western and central Europe and had an out-sized impact on education, culture, and the church in the medieval Latin world.

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