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Patrick's Character and
Mind
- A Vulnerable man
- Strong sense that he is a person who is
totally alone as he never truely recovered
from his capture
- C55- I daily expect to be murdered or robbed
or reduced to slavery in one way or another
- Seamas Mulholland ‘the human face of the spiritual
life: uncertainty, pain, hardship, ruined plans, exiled
hopes..the spirituality of broken humanity
- Patrick was a man ‘who was driven to breaking
point by too much laughter and
too little self esteem’ IER.
- Pride and Humility
- Even though he may be self deprecating he has a
huge sense of pride that God chose him in
preference to his better educated peers. attributed to god
- C12- "before I had to suffer I was like a
stone lying in the deep mud then he
who is almighty came and in his mercy
- not only pulled me out but lifted me
and placed me at the very top of the
wall"
- C33-I cannot hide the gift of god which
he gave me in the land of my captivity
there i sought him and found him...he
kept me from all evil because of
- his spirit who lives in me and works in
me to this very day"
- C55- I have been exalted beyond measure by
the lord. now that I was neither worthy worthy of
this nor a likely choice for the privilege
- Courageous
- all authority of his office as bishop is
giving to god. He was so confident in
God’s care and protection he remains
Irish in spite of diff & danger &
- To reprimand Coroticus.To demand
the return of captives and the booty. To
rebuke the British clergy. To speak up
in his own defence in the Confessio
- He was so confident in God’s care and protection
of him that he has the perseverance to remain with
the Irish in spite of danger and difficulty.
- Prayerful
- patrick was a parayerful man as he said as
many as "a hundred prayers a night"
- He had a strong bond with god and saw
prayer as a method of communication
- Shepherd
- Patrick also emerges from his writings as
shepherd and pastor of his flock. it is in this
imagery of himself that he uses in the letter
- Hanson identifies a cry of pain
of the good shepherd whose
flock has been torn asunder.
- Practical
- Charitable