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Soldiers whom I no longer call my fellow citizens, or citizens of the Roman saints, but fellow citizens of the devils, in consequence of their evil deeds; who live in death, after the hostile rite of the barbarians; associates of the Scots and
Apostate Picts; desirous of glutting themselves with the
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Coroticus. Bemoaning the capture and enslavement of newly Christianised Irish and their sale to non-Christians, Patrick includes the imprecation:
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blood of innocent
Christians, multitudes of whom I have begotten in God and confirmed in Christ.
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Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, classe di Lettere, Filosofia e Belle Arti
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Iannello, Fausto, "Note storiche sull’Epistola ad
Milites Corotici di San Patrizio". In
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Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow
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Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow
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MacQuarrie, Alan, "The Kings of Strathclyde", in A. Grant & K.Stringer (eds.)
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of the rulers of Alt Clut, which present him as the great-great-great-grandson of
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in the 6th century, and as they were not yet Christian, they could not be called "
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Williams, Anne, Smyth, Alfred P., and Kirby, D.P., (eds.),
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De Paor, pp. 109 – 113; Charles-Edwards, pp. 226 – 230.
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