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The Miracle of Ireland Ghéon ” Swift Victory: Essays onEdited by Henri Daniel Rops The Dark Agesa name befitting a time of confusion and darkness, tears and blood, an epoch brought about by the collapse of the ancient world, the fall of Rome, and the foundering of imperial and cultural order into a chaos of savagery. Against this darkness, a light endured, the only surviving power of the Wests disaster: Christianity. From Ireland, this light shone out with a miraculous brilliance and men and women set