The West’s primary threat still lies in the East. And yet, like the late Romans and Byzantines—and the Roman captives whom Saint Patrick encountered—we are poised to surrender people, churches, monuments, and lands rather than stand our ground.
Last Spring, I read a biographical novel about Saint Patrick. We do not have much firsthand information about Saint Patrick, of course, other than what he himself wrote in his Confessio and Epistola. We are not sure where in Britain the family…