Day 8- St. Patricks (LOTS OF PICTURES!!!)

St. Patrick's first Church



Hey folks,

When many people think of Ireland, three images usually come to mind: green, leprechauns and St. Patrick. Many Americans combine these three on March 17 to celebrate this man even though they know nothing about him. Before this trip I was one of those people. Thankfully, this trip today allowed me to get to know a lot more about St. Patrick and see some of his history up close.

About St. Patrick 

St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. It's believe that he came to Ireland first as a slave from England. After serving in Ireland as a slave for several years he returned to England, only to feel called by God to come back as a missionary. He introduced Christianity to the country which for the past thousand years has been suffering from wars and fights between Protestants and Catholic. St. Patrick is admired by both.

The first place we went was St. Patrick's first church. Since his original church would have been built of timber, this was built a few centuries after. However, it's still so cool to know what I was standing where Christians have been worshipping for over 1,600 years! HOW COOL IS THAT!?! The church was set on the beautiful green hillside next to a super cool graveyard.

 

 

 

Read this! This guy died during the potato famine



 

St. Patrick's Cathedral

 

We then went to St. Patrick's Cathedral. It's believed that St. Patrick is buried under the stone.

 



Beautiful view!

 

 
 

 
 

The Rock St. Patrick is supposedly buried under

 

Then the guys decided to fool around in the graveyard:

 

 
 

 

 Then we went to wells where St. Patrick supposedly helped to heal people. Today people still come to the wells for healing.

 

Since this is holy ground you can supposedly do anything you want here and it not be a sin LOL

 
 



 



The next place we went was Inch Abbey. THIS PLACE WAS BEAUTIFUL! This would be an old monastery. And it was right on the water next to a willow tree with a perfect view of St. Patrick Cathedral. SO BEAUTIFUL!

 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 

 

 

When the prof's weren't looking Karl climbed all the way to the top! Just looking at how high he was made my stomach squirm.

 

 

Yesterday was awesome. I'm falling more and more in love with this place! :-)