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Swabbie Robbie's avatar

I enjoyed that story. I love how mythology and real people blend over time. I believe that blending preserves these stories , humanities history and understanding of who we were and how we arrived at where we are now. The erasure of our cultural history is one of the things I despise most about the replacement populations of invaders being brought into all the Western World countries.

Too bad the icon of Saint Ailbe seems to have him holding a fox.

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Finola O Murchu's avatar

That was lovely Thomas.

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Francine More's avatar

But how did the Christians who found young Ailbe know his parents were unmarried?

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Thomas Sheridan's avatar

he told them

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Francine More's avatar

How would an abandoned infant know that?

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