Word: strangford
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...Kilpatrick. In his 16th year he was kidnapped by Irish marauders, sold in slavery to a Druid chieftain-priest named Milchu. Six years later he escaped Ireland, eventually reached Rome whence he was sent back by Pope St. Celestine I to begin his celebrated conversions. Up Strangford Lough he sailed in his galley, was mistaken for a pirate, 1,500 years ago this year or next. St. Patrick converted the Irish, consecrated 350 bishops, among them a friend of his named St. MacCarthem. Traditionally he drove the snakes from old Erin, howling "Faugh-a-ballaugh!" On what is now Ireland...
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