I’m familiar with Catholic history. I’m ALSO familiar with the perverted SDA version of it.
Patrick’s Father was a Roman citizen who held a high office. His mom was a relative of St. Martin of Tours – yes, that’s in FRANCE, where he was the THIRD Bishop in 371. I NEVER said that there was no Church is Europe. Patrick lived with his parents in Scotland.
When he was a teenager, Patrick was taken by marauders and held captive in Ireland – they were Druids. He escaped after about 6 years and went back to Britain. He later entered a monastery near Nice France. He was later ordained a Priest by St. Germain who ran the monastery.
Now – the reason Patrick was sent to Britain by Pope Celestine I was to combat the Pelagian Heresy that arose in the region and also to deal with the widespread paganism. It was actually St. Germain who was sent – and he took St. Patrick with him as one of his emissaries.
Pope Celestine later allowed Patrick to return to Ireland to evangelize the pagans there.
Then you would be familiar with the fact that Celtic Ireland received the gospel from Asia Minor...not Rome, and that the scriptures they used originated in Antioch, being of the itala language, not Roman latin. The Galatian churches were Celtic. As were the churches in Gaul. For centuries before Christ, and centuries after, those Celts traded, corresponded, and travelled among one another freely. This is how the gospel reached Ireland...not from Celestine or any other Roman.
If the Celtic church was Catholic, please explain the wars and centuries of persecution and threats that rained down on the Celtic Christians by Catholic kings, bishops, and emissaries of Rome such as Augustine, if they refused to surrender to Papal authority?
You might also no doubt be able to explain why that celebrated Catholic historian, Bede, who lived 200 years after Patrick, did not mention him as a Catholic? Certainly later, many fanciful stories arose regarding Patricks Catholic credentials, such as …
“Sleep came over the inhabitants of Rome, so that Patrick brought away as much as he wanted of the relics. Afterward those relics were taken to Armagh by the counsel of God and the counsel of the men of Ireland. What was brought then was three hundred and threescore and five relics, together with the relics of Paul and Peter and Lawrence and Stephen, and many others. And a sheet was there with Christ's blood [thereon] and with the hair of Mary the Virgin.”
Stokes, Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 89, pt. 1, p. 239.
and this....
The Celtic Patrick reached Ireland in an ordinary way. The fictitious Patrick, in order to provide passage for a leper when there was no place on the boat, threw his portable stone altar into the sea. The stone did not go to the bottom, nor was it outdistanced by the boat, but it floated around the boat with the leper on it until it reached Ireland.
Stokes, Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 89, pt. 2, pp. 447-449.
But Dr. Killen refutes this story by declaring:
He (Patrick) never mentions either Rome or the pope or hints that he was in any way connected with the ecclesiastical capital of Italy. He recognizes no other authority but that of the word of God ... When Palladius arrived in the country, it was not to be expected that he would receive a very hearty welcome from the Irish apostle. If he was sent by [Pope] Celestine to the native Christians to be their primate or archbishop, no wonder that stouthearted Patrick refused to bow his neck to any such yoke of bondage.
Killen, Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, vol. 1, pp. 12-15.
The claim to 'owning' Patrick as one of their own was a Catholic invention of later years when his esteemed reputation could no longer be denied, or ignored.