Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

historical fact that for centuries Rome made every
effort to destroy the church Patrick had founded.
Jules Michelet writes of Boniface, who was the
pope’s apostle to the Germans about two hundred
years after Patrick: “His chief hatred is to the Scots
[the name equally given to the Scotch and Irish],
and he especially condemns their allowing priests
to marry.”[21]
Patrick sought two goals in his effort to make
truth triumphant. First, he sought the conversion of
those among whom he had been a slave, and,
secondly, he longed to capture Tara, the central
capital of Ireland, for Christ. Therefore he
proceeded immediately to County Antrim in the
northwest, where he had endured slavery. While he
failed to win his former slave master, he was
successful in converting the master’s household.
This threw open a door to further missionary labors
not only to this region but also across the adjacent
waters into nearby Scotland.
History loves to linger upon the legend of
Patrick’s attack on Tara, the central capital. The
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