History Question #1- Driver –It is important to remember that social identities and personal identities are shaped by the history of a culture. According to Ireland-Now.com (Ireland-Now.com) an online travel guide, the earliest settlers came to Ireland at about 6500 B.C. They were hunter-gatherers that constructed settlements along river valleys in the northern part of the country. By 3500 B.C. the Irish culture had begun to take shape into a more sophisticated agricultural society. In 400 A.D. the island was assimilated by the Celts. In 431 who, according to Catholic Online (Catholic Online), was sent by Pope Celestine, to Ireland as their first bishop to begin the conversion of the Irish peoples to Christianity?
History Question #1 discussion answers –Passenger 2. Well, he would have to be someone high up in the church. Someone who later became a Saint for his work. Passenger 1. St Patrick. He is the most famous Irish Catholic. He had to have been sent to Ireland to convert the pagans to Christianity. That has to be why we have St. Patrick’s day! Passenger 3. Hmmmmm…. I think I remember hearing somewhere that it was St Andrew. No, wait ,I think He was is the patron Saint for Scotland, wasn’t he? Now I 'm not sure. Passenger 2 Wait! I remember reading this in one of our religious studies classes at school. I think it was St Palladius. He was an early Irish missionary, the first bishop of Ireland, and the immediate predecessor to St. Patrick (Catholic Online). All Agree.
History Answer #2 – Driver. So you are going with St Palladius? Wow. You know your saints! That’s right it was Palladuis who, in 431, was sent as first bishop to the Christians of Ireland.
History Question #2- Driver- Early Irish culture was dominated by a masculine value pattern where men went to war and provided for the family through hunting/gathering and farming. The masculine value pattern is still primarily true in
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