34/41 57, in Dr.Todd's _Life of St.Patrick_, and in Mr.Whitley Stokes' _Goidilica_. We regret exceedingly that our limited space will not permit us to give this and other most valuable and interesting documents. There is a remarkable coincidence of thought and expression between some portions of this hymn and the well-known prayer of St. Such coincidences are remarkable and beautiful evidences of the oneness of faith, which manifests itself so frequently in similarity of language as well as in unity of belief. The Hymn of St.Patrick, written in the fifth century, is as purely Catholic as the Prayer of St.Ignatius, written in the sixteenth. |