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The Eric Metaxas Show

Bill Federer

The Eric Metaxas Show

Metaxas Media

Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

It's Saint Patrick's day, so we had our friend and author William Federer on the program to tell us why we celebrate it. 

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0:00.0

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0:10.6

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0:29.6

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0:36.6

For your mind? Drink it all down. It's nummy. I wub,

0:41.1

vanilla. Here comes Eric Metaxis. Hey there, folks. Remember I said today was St. Patrick's Day?

0:51.0

Well, it turns out I was correct. And because of that, as I promise to you,

0:56.1

our dear friend Bill Federer is on the program to give us the facts concerning St. Patrick. Bill,

1:04.7

welcome back. Eric, great to be with you. I see you're wearing green. I'm not wearing green,

1:09.7

but if people are listening on the radio, they would have no idea.

1:13.6

So as far as they're concerned, I'm dressed like a leprechaun, and they have no evidence to the contrary.

1:19.3

So I'm just going to throw that out there.

1:21.0

So I want you to tell us we've got about 30 minutes here.

1:26.3

I know the story of St. Patrick. I've forgotten a lot

1:29.3

of the details. Where should we begin? Well, by the way, I put it in a book and a flash drive,

1:35.3

but China builds the Great Wall of China around the third century. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You just

1:40.9

said you have you've written a book about it. What's the title of that book? I don't want to, that's very important. As an author, I want to make sure we get the title of the book. Yeah, yeah. It's called St. Patrick, the real story of his amazing life from tragedy to the triumph. And I begin with, and I have a flash drive with my video presentations on it. But I like to give the backstory. A lot of people don't realize that,

2:02.2

you know, Patrick lived the same time as Attila, the Hun. And it's like, what? So China builds

2:07.5

the Great Wall of China. The Huns can no longer attack into China as well. So they turn west. And it

2:12.9

starts a domino effect of displaced tribes across Central Asia that spill over the Roman border.

2:18.3

Give us a century, please. Give us the time frame. The early 400s.

2:24.2

Okay, so this is the early 5th century. St. Patrick, we know him as St. Patrick. He is alive.

2:30.5

At that same time, you say, when did China build the great wall of China?

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