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and download it today. Thank you for listening to the History of the Papacy.

I'm your host, Stephen.

We are a member of the Parthenon Podcast Network, including Scott Ranks, History Unplugged,

James Early's Key Battles of American American history and Richard Limbs, this American

president. Go to Parthenon Podcast.com to learn more. I'd like to quickly mention we are on

Patreon. We have four tiers, Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, and Rome. There's so many

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check out joining us on patreon.com forward slash history of the papacy. Now let us commemorate the

Patreon patrons on the history of the papacy dipdics. We have Roberto, Yorin, William, Brian, Jeffrey, Christina, John, and Sarah at the Alexandria level. We have Dapo, Paul, Justin, and Lana, all of whom are magnificent at Constantinople level. And reaching that ultimate power and prestige that of the Sea of Rome, we have

Peter the Great. In today's episode, Dr. Carly McNamara of the University of Glasgow,

will lead us through the early conversion of the Irish to Christianity. We'll talk about

some of the sources we can look for, more information, as well as how we should and shouldn't interpret those

sources. Now with that, here is the next piece of the mosaic of the history of the popes of Rome

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