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came over Patrick. He began to concentrate on spiritual matters and early In the year 407 he escaped and boarded a ship bound for Gaul or what is now France. He settled down in a town called Auxerre, a famous centre of learning. H was consecrated by the Pope and went back to Ireland in the year 432, determined to bring the Gospel to the centre of autho. rity in Ireland - Tara. There was a law at that time that at Easter no fire, could be lighted until the fire on the Hill of Tara had been kindled by the druids.
Patrick lighted the Paschal Fire before tha tof Tara and appeared before King Laoghaire. “Soverign Lord, except that fire which you see on yonder hill be extinguished this very night it will never be extinguishd in Ireland,” said the
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