From pericles@temple.edu Sun Apr 22 06:20:15 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3MDKE9117356 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:20:15 -0700 Received: from typhoon.ocis.temple.edu (root@typhoon.ocis.temple.edu [155.247.166.103]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3MDKEU27375 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:20:14 -0700 Received: from temple.edu (ppp-216-158-5-88.cust.oldcity.dca.net [216.158.5.88]) by typhoon.ocis.temple.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f3MDJxC25462; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 09:19:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3AE2DB21.38031BD5@temple.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 09:22:41 -0400 From: Dan Tompkins Reply-To: pericles@temple.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: St Patrick in Brittany Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit At age 21, the Catholic Encyclopedia says, St. Patrick was urged by an angel to escape from slavery in Ireland: perhaps Onesimus in Paul's Epistle to Philemon had the same angel. Happily, Patrick did not fall into the hands of St. Paul (who promptly returned Onesimus to his master with a nice letter about salvation), but got over to Brittany, apparently to the monastery of St Martin of Tours, where he trained for a bit then returned to do all the good he did in Eire. It is the Brittany connection that strikes me right now, because Breton is Celtic. Are there other examples of a close affinity between the Bretons and the Irish? Are there studies of linguistic and other connections? how much Old Breton do we in fact have? Best, Dan -- Daniel P. Tompkins Director, Intellectual Heritage Program Temple University 214 Anderson Hall, 1114 West Berks Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090 215/204 4900; 215/204-2359 (fax) pericles@temple.edu Check our website: courses.temple.edu/ih Why go into acting? "It was a way to get out of New Jersey." Susan Sarandon (of Metuchen) .