After two-and-a-half decades of inspiration and illumination sourced in dreaming and the lore of place, the gorgeous revelation that the powerful tradition was not stamped out by early Christine doctrine, but continued to fuel the imaginations of our Celtic heritage, opens a revolutionary flower of understanding of our connection with the divine.  Some people may be familiar with the ascetics known as the Desert Fathers, early Christian hermits and ascetics, who lived primarily in the deserts of the Roman province of Egypt, but few people are aware of the wild, ecstatic beauty of the renunciates known as the Green Martyrs who flocked to the wilds of Ireland and her smaller islands.  The heroic, mystical, and strange deeds that these ascetics fit completely in with the mythological, day-to-day lifestyle of our Irish ancestors. 

In this episode, we will track what is known of these mad, feral, ecstatics, and how they inspired the early Christian mythology and the birth of Ireland's early Christian saints.  Also, we will lean into the super-hero like qualities of the male and female saints in not only how they inspired our ancestors, but can still inspire us today to transform darkness into light, to beat the arrayed odds of dark forces against us, and help us derive greater strength in seeking illumination, social justice, ecological justice, and contributing to the harmonies of this gorgeous planet we get to call home.  Please register for this free program to receive the link to attend or receive a recording link via email.