Celtic Christianity: Ecology and Holiness
by Christopher Bamford, William Parker Marsh (Editor)
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This anthology of legends evokes the spirit of the Celtic Christianity. The stories of the Celtic saints are interspersed with verses, prayers and sayings attributed to them, including Patrick, Brigit, Brendan, Columba, Aidan and Cuthbert.Tags
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This anthology of legends evokes the spirit of the Celtic Christianity. The stories of the Celtic saints are interspersed with verses, prayers and sayings attributed to them, including Patrick, Brigit, Brendan, Columba, Aidan and Cuthbert.
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- People/Characters
- Saint Patrick; Saint Brigid; Findian; Senan of Inis Cathaig; Brendan the Navigator; Kevin of Glendalough (show all 14); Ciaran of Clonmacnoise; Mochudan of Rahen; Columba (or Colmcille, Saint, 521-597); Saint Columbanus; Gall; Fursey; Aidan of Lindisfarne (Saint, died 651); Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (Saint, c634 | 687)
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- Ireland; Northern Ireland, UK
- Epigraph
- The Maker of all things,
The Lord God worship we:
Heaven white with angles' wings,
Earth and the white waved sea.
Early Irish Poem - First words
- Christians of all persuasions have always loved the saints of the Celtic Church and the traditions of sanctity, learning and stewardwhip for which they stood; and the Celtic, or as it is also called, the British Church has al... (show all)ways represented and ideal for those who have known of it, and not simply as a Golden Age of innocence and purity which, in the words of Nora Chadwick, has "never been surpassed and perhaps been equalled only by the ascetics of the eastern deserts," but also, and more importantly, as an alternative seed, "a light from the west," perhaps obscure and even alien, but nevertheless powerful and true with the kind of reality we seem to need today.
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