Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

Christianity in Ireland Before Patrick
Celtic Christianity embraced more than Irish
and British Christianity. There was a Gallic
(French) Celtic Christianity and a Galatian Celtic
Christianity, as well as a British Celtic Christianity.
So great were the migrations of peoples in ancient
times that not only the Greeks, but also the
Assyrians settled in large numbers in the land now
called France. Thus for almost a thousand years
after Christ there was in southern France a strong
Greek and Oriental population. As late as 600,
there were people in France who spoke the
language of Assyria.[12]
Surely no one could claim that that branch of
Celtic Christianity in Asia Minor, whose churches
arose as the result of the labors of the apostle Paul,
received their gospel from the bishop of Rome. On
the other hand, it is evident that Gaul received her
knowledge of the gospel from missionaries who
traveled from Asia Minor. It was the Celtic, or
Galatian type of the New Testament church which
evangelized Great Britain.[13] Thus Thomas
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