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Ned Bustard, "Saint Patrick the Forgiver: The History and Legends of Ireland's Bishop" (InterVarsity, 2023)

New Books in Irish Studies

English - March 16, 2023 08:00 - 53 minutes - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
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Previous Episode: Patrick Bixby, "Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
Next Episode: Rick de Villiers, "Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

Ned Bustard is the author of a new children’s book, Saint Patrick the Forgiver: The History and Legends of Ireland's Bishop (InterVarsity, 2023). We talked about the book, the life of St. Patrick, and the conversion of Ireland. The day after the interview, during his Ash Wednesday homily, Pope Francis said, “the Gospel is not an idea, the Gospel is not an ideology: the Gospel is a proclamation that touches your heart and makes you change your heart.” That’s exactly what St Patrick showed by returning to pagan Ireland where he’d been a slave for six years. When a slave, he had been a shepherd. Now free, he became the shepherd of a nation.

IVP Kids imprint webpage.

Square Halo Books webpage.

World End Images webpage.

St. Patrick’s writings, the Confessio and the Epistola, in English and Latin.

EWTN Ireland documentary, Discovering St. Patrick

Pope Francis’s homily on Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2023.

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Ned Bustard is the author of a new children’s book, Saint Patrick the Forgiver: The History and Legends of Ireland's Bishop (InterVarsity, 2023). We talked about the book, the life of St. Patrick, and the conversion of Ireland. The day after the interview, during his Ash Wednesday homily, Pope Francis said, “the Gospel is not an idea, the Gospel is not an ideology: the Gospel is a proclamation that touches your heart and makes you change your heart.” That’s exactly what St Patrick showed by returning to pagan Ireland where he’d been a slave for six years. When a slave, he had been a shepherd. Now free, he became the shepherd of a nation.


IVP Kids imprint webpage.
Square Halo Books webpage.
World End Images webpage.

St. Patrick’s writings, the Confessio and the Epistola, in English and Latin.
EWTN Ireland documentary, Discovering St. Patrick

Pope Francis’s homily on Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2023.

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