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The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick - Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by Various
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commands you, God will judge him. I know not what I can say, or what I
can speak more of the departed sons of God slain cruelly by the sword.
It is written: "Weep with them that weep." And again: "If any member
suffers anything, all the members suffer with it." Therefore the
Church laments and bewails her sons and daughters, not slain by the
sword, but sent away to distant countries, where sin is more shameless
and abounds. There free-born Christian men are sold and enslaved
amongst the wicked, abandoned, and apostate Picts.

Therefore I cry out with grief and sorrow. O beautiful and
well-beloved brethren and children! whom I have brought forth in Christ
in such multitudes, what shall I do for you? I am not worthy before
God or man to come to your assistance. The wicked have prevailed over
us. We have become outcasts. It would seem that they do not think we
have one baptism and one Father, God. They think it an indignity that
we have been born in Ireland; as He said: "Have ye not one God? Why do
ye each forsake his neighbor?" Therefore I grieve for you--I grieve, O
my beloved ones! But, on the other hand, I congratulate myself I have
not labored for nothing--my journey has not been in vain. This
horrible and amazing crime has been permitted to take place. Thanks be
to God, ye who have believed and have been baptized have gone from
earth to paradise. Certainly, ye have begun to migrate where there is
no night or death or sorrow; but ye shall exult like young bulls loosed
from their bonds and tread down the wicked under your feet as dust.

Truly, you shall reign with the apostles and prophets and martyrs, and
obtain the eternal kingdom, as He hath testified, saying: "They shall
come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven." Without are dogs, and
sorcerers, and murderers, and liars, and perjurers, and they shall have
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