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The book was mentioned as a biographical resource about St. Patrick, providing insights into his life and works. The author, Philip Freeman, was described as a professor of history at Pepperdine University.
We are so lucky when it comes to St. Patrick we have two documents that he actually wrote himself.
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Episode: St Patrick (Repeat)
The book was mentioned as a biographical resource about St. Patrick, providing insights into his life and works. The author, Philip Freeman, was described as a professor of history at Pepperdine University.
We are so lucky when it comes to St. Patrick we have two documents that he actually wrote himself.
We have two letters that have survived the centuries. This is very rare from this early medieval or period of late antiquity but we have first of all a letter to the soldiers of Caroticus is his first letter.
But then we have a longer letter which is called his confession, his confesio in Latin which is a little bit misleading because it's not a confession in the modern sense.
It's much more of a declaration of his life and his work and his intense.
Of course whenever you have people writing about themselves you have to look at it a little closely. We all tend to be sometimes a little bit dishonest and we try to paint the best picture of ourself but the letters are actually interesting in that aspect too.