St. Patrick's Sabbath (White, St. Patrick, His Writings and Life, 1920)

Type: a quote
Sub-type: historical fact (5th cent.)
Relevance: prophecy
Text:  "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made." Genesis 2:2-3 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." Exodus 20:8-11

  Her parents, having taken advice given to them by God, heard of Patrick as a man who was visited by the everlasting God every seventh day; [...]
Muirchú moccu Machtheni, Life of St. Patrick, bk. i, ch. xxvii
(in Newport John Davis White, St. Patrick, His Writings and Life,
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge;
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920, p. 99).


  The angel was wont to come to him on every seventh day of the week; and, as one man talks with another, so Patrick enjoyed the angel's conversation.
Muirchú..., bk. ii, ch. xv
(in White..., p. 109).


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