Ireland is unique in religious history for being the only land into which Christianity was introduced without bloodshed. How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995)
It is... ironic that, given its subsequent history of Jew-hatred, Christianity should become the vehicle by which Jewish values entered the mainstream. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)
Patrick... understood that, though Christianity was not inextricably wedded to Roman custom, it could not survive without Roman literacy. How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995)