St. Patrick’s Letter to Coroticus

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For this St. Patrick’s Day, we finally present the last canonical text written by St. Patrick, his letter to Coroticus, completing the series we began in Episode 68 with the first half of Patrick’s Confessio.

Today’s Texts

• Patrick. Epistola ad Coroticum. St. Patrick: His Writings and Life, edited and translated by Newport J.D. White, Macmillan, 1920, pp. 52-60. Google Books.

References

• Kelly, David. “St Patrick’s Writings: Confessio and Epistola.” Saint Patrick’s Confessio, Royal Irish Academy, 2011, www.confessio.ie/more/article_kelly#.

Audio Credit: Father Ted, “The Old Grey Whistle Theft,” season 2, episode 4, written by Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews, 29 March 1996.

Image: Detail from an herbal tract in British Library MS Edgerton 747, f. 102r.