SAINT PARTICK

Saint Patrick has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the People, Dates, Places and Events category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.

Saint Patrick is one of the most important people in whole history of european integration and will probably have influence on the future of United europe, because he had been one of the first evangelizer of european peoples and his birthdate to Sky is still celebrated in all Ecclesiae Christiana every year with great and green coloured parties.

Not much is known yet nowadays on the person of Saint Patrick, apart from the fact that he was born at the end of the IV century A.D. son of a rich roman-briton ecclesiatic (then probably member of an aristocratic family) and ritired in meditative ascetic life dedicated to Jesus, after what he decided to start a mission to evangelize his country right in the middle of the invasions of anglosaxons after the leaving of Romans from Britain. So, without any papal mandament nor relation with the Roman Church, out of the diocesian or archibishop system of the imperial church within the Christian Empire, he founded many historic monastirs in Ireland, Scotland and England, together with his followers, to spread the Evangelus to Britons and after that to Germans and Goths.

Sankt Patrick realized the evangelization of all Britons throught the mission of the traveling monks (peregrines) inspired to the "clan", the celtic social model of loyalty, obey and life relations in a common ascetic path, in accordance with the christian monastic virtues of poverty and celibacy developed in the early britons monastirs founded by Patrick's team in Armagh, Bangor, St.Gildan, Derry, Kells, Clonfert, Kildare and Killeany. Time after these had been followed by the most famous and organized monastirs of Iona, St.Andrews, Lindisfarne, Durie e Whitby: those isolated buildings made of stones with nude hands, usefull to the fuga mundi ascetic life of monks in imitation of the rigid Regula written by Saint Benedict of Nursia in which the Abbot (meaning "father" in jewish language) was a unique administrator of the cenobius without any politic or religious superior to obey! The irish monasticism was characterized for poverty and traveling, founded on penitence, ascetism and the study of holy ancient texts, on the typical celtic mysticism and the originary christian baptism into the rivers in accordance with the "john method". As collateral daily activity, the irisch monks were used to copy and bind texts, by using a miniature style enriched by marvellous pictures, pieces of incalculable treasors still conserved in public museums or ecclesiastic archives everywhere in Europe: this delicate amanuensis workings had been usefull to transfer the ancient classic christian and greek-roman-celtic culture everywhere in Europe until nowadays! Moreover those monks were used to practice the retoric and gramatic arts, the natural sciences and the computation, while announcing the Message of Jesus Christ and His knowledge known as "Originary Christianity" very close to the Didaché shared with His Apostoles.

Saint Patrick is still famous nowadays for many reasons: the "Saint Patrick Day" on 17th march that represents the most followed christian party in Ireland, Scotland and all anglosaxon world, when everything is green cokoured and the family clans met for celebration; the Saint Patrick cross, a diagonal red cross on white background, indicating to the North Ireland nation flag which is a component of the United Kingdom flag; the Saint Patrick legend about his miracle that made all the "snakes" living in Britain escape forverer at his presence; moreover, by some scholars he is considered a member of the "Jesus family" (called kyriakon), which they belonged also King Arthur, Santa Helen mother of the emperor Constantine I, Saint Columba and other ancient irish saint living in the V century A.D., also many european genealogies of the history of european integration (as I narrow in my essay). To conclude, the conflict between the english-celtic church and the roman church, eventhough the deal at the Whitby Synod in 664 A.D. requested by Pope Gregory I, who pretended to develop the state church system also in England under the rule of Saint Augustin Archibishop of Canterbury, was based on the radical differences of the british christianity inspired by Saint Patrick and exploded in XVI century A.D. with the Anglican schisme under Queen Elizabeth I.

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