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Subject Saint Patrick, a Dacian from Banna?

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The Dateable Latin Inscriptions from Birdoswald
RIB        Date	                        Description
1910	AD198-209	B.I. of emperor Septimius Severus and his son Caracalla
1909	AD205-208	B.I. of emperor Septimius Severus and his sons Caracalla and Geta by Cohors I Aelia Dacorum and Cohors I Thracum
1911	AD212-217	altar to emperor Caracalla
1892	AD212-222?	altar to I O M by Cohors I Aelia Dacorum Antoniniana
1914	c.AD219	B.I. of governor Modius Julius by Cohors I Aelia Dacorum
1896	AD235-238	altar to I O M D by Cohors I Aelia Dacorum during Maximian's reign
1929a	AD235-238	altar to I O M D by Cohors I Aelia Dacorum during Maximian's reign
1875	AD237	altar to I O M by Cohors I Aelia Dacorum during the consulship of Perpetuus
1893	AD238-244	altar to I O M by Cohors I Aelia Dacorum Gordiana
1883	AD260-268	altar to I O M by Cohors I Aelia Dacorum Postumiana
1886	AD260-268	altar to I O M by Cohors I Aelia Dacorum Postumiana
1885	AD271-274	altar to Cocidius and I O M by Cohors I Aelia Dacorum Tetricianorum
1929b	AD276-282	altar to I O M by Cohors I Aelia Dacorum Probiana
http://www.roman-britain.org/places/banna.htm
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Original Message March 17th St Patrick's Day St Patrick was an evangelist and died about 461AD. In his book Confessions, St Patrick said he came from Bannaventarbernia and his father worked on the wall.
Banna is Birdoswald (near Brampton on Hadrians Wall). We know this because a Roman carved stone was dug up in the area with the word Banna on it.
The stone is in Lanercost Priory, near Brampton.
Vent means loophole in embattled wall, allowing passage out of,
outlet to, going to. There is such a vent (where a stream runs
through the wall) between Birdoswald and Irthington, but also the meaning "going to" is relevant. Arbeia was a prominent Roman site overlooking and protecting the Tyne Estuary and a prominent military supply base for Wall. The pay chests would be delivered to Arebeia and it was the lifeline to the rest of the Wall.
St Patrick would describe his homeplace as Banna (Birdoswald) Vent (going to) Arbeia (by Tynemouth). Roman fortifications extended to Maryport which is exactly opposite to where St Patrick was taken captive to, on Mount Slemish, Ireland.
Info supplied by M. S. Quinn, Frizington.
[link to bound-together.org.uk]

... since his father was both a cleric and a Roman official in Britain, maybe scholars who think the future saint was born near the Birdoswald section of Hadrian's Wall are right.
[link to www.awesomestories.com]

Birdoswald has the best preserved defences of any of the 16 major forts which supported Hadrian's frontier system. Known to the Romans as 'Banna', from the early 3rd century its garrison was a thousand-strong infantry unit originating in Dacia (modern Romania). Three main gates of their fortress are still traceable, along with perimeter walls, angle towers, granaries and an unusual drill hall.
[link to www.britevents.com]

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