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The high abbesses... had the power to heal, ...almost certainly heard confessions, probably ordained clergy, and may even have celebrated Mass.

— Thomas Cahill How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995)

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The terms of this new religion, though based on Hebrew models, were Greek terms.

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Human beings never know more than a part, as "through a glass darkly"; and all knowledge comes to us in pieces.

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Ireland is unique in religious history for being the only land into which Christianity was introduced without bloodshed.

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If we are to be saved, it will not be by Romans but by saints.

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