By Paul Belien
Friday, March 17, 2006Saint Patrick was a Roman who ended up beyond the Empire's westernmost border. When the Empire collapsed its Christian legacy was preserved in Ireland thanks to Patrick. From Ireland Patrick's spiritual sons, Columba, aidan and other holy men, eventually brought the ancient heritage back east, to the lands where it had originally come from.
Ten years ago Thomas Cahill published a delightful little book, "How the Irish Saved Civilization,” describing how from the bower the saints and scholars came that saved the classical and religious heritage of Europe.
Today we are witnessing a second age of migrations and wanderings of nations. Christianity has already to a large extent died in Europe, and, barring a miracle, the old continent will descend into the dark ages for a second time.
It is doubtful that Ireland will escape the coming of Eurabia. The Irish have been infected with the same deadly poison of multiculturalism that has infected the whole of Western Europe. Dublin already has its mosques – who could have imagined that half a century ago! – and the time is not far away that in Ireland – as in other countries in Western Europe – more people will be visiting a mosque to pray every week than a Christian church.
and yet, we know that, even if Europe perishes, its culture, its religion, its heritage lives on, beyond its westernmost border, in america. One day, perhaps, america will send its missionaries east in order to re-europeanise the countries where its own civilisation came from.
as a boy Patrick was abducted from Roman Britain by slave raiders and taken to Ireland. He managed to escape and board a ship bound for the Empire only to find "desertum,” moral, economic and political devastation there, in the very year – 407 aD – that barbaric hordes wreaked devastation in Gaul.
all of us who live in Europe and can read the signs of the times, know that ours is a civilisation that has committed suicide. and yet we must bear witness to the world, and especially to america, about what European civilisation is today: moral, economic and political devastation, desertum.
It is our duty to report about the devastation in Europe 1,600 years after the first one, a devastation wreaked not by barbarians but wreaked in our souls by ourselves first, leaving a desertum which a desert people is now taking advantage of. This is the sad story of Europe. It is a lesson for america to ponder on this Saint Patrick's day: Do not repeat Europe's fatal mistake.
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