IRISH CATHOLICISM: HISTORYPatience ChilesCarla Schmidt

St. Patrick to Today

What happened between St. Patrick and today in Irish Catholicism?

Catholicism and Folk Religion

Polytheistic, nature-based religion Common perspectives

Sacramental views Animism

Incorporation ofChristianity into thePre-Christian religion

Catholicism and Folk Religion

Penal Period

Penal laws Restriction of the practice

of Catholicism Irish identity

Penal Period

Famine

Blight wiped out potato crop 1.5 million died of starvation

or disease 2 million emigrated Renewed orthodoxy

Famine