Just found this little video of a trip to Ireland… my father-land, with my father, in May. It was his birthday on the 8th and my niece Katelyn was at school there, and her birthday was the 14th. We took a ride up to Saul Ireland, which is where St. Patrick landed back in County Down and worked very hard to “chase the snakes out of Ireland”, as I was taught as a child. I rather like snakes and Druids, and i also have respect for others’ religions.
This site is known as the Cradle of Christianity in Ireland. Tradition holds that St Patrick and his companions landed at the mouth of the Slaney river, a few miles from here, in 432AD.
Patrick encountered Dichu, the local chieftain, who gave him a barn for shelter.
The word for barn in Irish was Sabhall, from which we get the anglicised word Saul.
From here Patrick traveled extensively sharing the message of Jesus Christ and he died here on 17th March, 461.