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April 18, 2007
Patrick's breastplate
This tile sums up for me the loneliness of the boy Patrick, kidnapped, humiliated, beaten, probably starved, deprived of family and friends, left alone to herd sheep on a lonely hillside in a strange land. Here he found a faith that I can only envy, a faith that sustained him and brought him back to serve as missionary and Bishop to the very people who had treated him so harshly.
I hope I have the privilege of meeting him in the life hereafter, even if only for the briefest of moments in his company.
Posted by The Gray Monk at April 18, 2007 03:10 PM
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