“I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing "have I labored," neither has my exile been "in vain."”

— Saint Patrick

Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus (c.450?)

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5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop … 385–461

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My heart has been rent and joined again;
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I wept in love and made all weep with me;
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I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged of love,
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“I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing "have I labored," neither has my exile been "in vain."”

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