Saints, Snakes, & Pirates

What holiday do people celebrate on March 17th?

• Ireland Day!

• Pirate Day!

• St. Christopher’s Day

• St. Patrick's Day

What does the author mainly describe in the passage?

• how Patrick found religion while he was a slave

• how Patrick became the patron saint of Ireland

• the traditions in current St. Patrick’s Day celebrations

• the charges Patrick denied in his Confessio

The time Patrick spent in Ireland as a slave helped him with his later missionary work. What evidence from the passage best supports this conclusion?

• “While Palladius worked mainly in the south of Ireland, Patrick's work took him back to the North, near where he had served his time as a slave.”

• “Rather than tell the Irish that their old ways were wrong, Patrick incorporated parts of their religion into Christianity.”

• “Although Patrick is usually credited with introducing Ireland to Christianity, the Church already had some presence on the island.”

• “Because of his fluency in the language, he was able to reach members of the Celtic community who could not understand other missionaries.”

Read the following sentences: “Rather than tell the Irish that their old ways were wrong, Patrick incorporated parts of their religion into Christianity. Legand has it that, because the Irish celebrated their gods with fire, Patrick added bonfires to the Easter ritual. Because the Irish venerated the sun, Patrick added a sun to the cross—creating what is now known as a ‘Celtic cross.’”

• The changes that Patrick made to Christian practices to make the religion more familiar to the Irish have not been maintained in current practice.

• The changes that Patrick made to Christian religious practice to adapt the religion to Irish culture were offensive to Christian priests and bishops.

• Patrick did not mind making small changes to Christian religious practice to adapt the religion to a different culture.

• Despite Patrick’s efforts to adapt Christian religious practice to Irish culture, he was unable to convert many Irishmen to Christianity.

What is this passage mostly about?

• why Ireland is called the Emerald Isle

• why there are no snakes in Ireland

• the life and legend of St. Patrick

• how St. Patrick escaped from pirates

Definition: Someone who goes to another country in order to teach people about their religion

• Traveler
• Missionary
• Explorer
• Saint

Whats the definition of incorporate?

• To exclude or segregate something from a whole.
• To simplify or reduce something to its basic form.
• To complicate or confuse something by adding unnecessary details.
• To include as part of a larger thing