Be Thou My Breastplate

The title is taken from the hymn Be Thou My Vision, a famous reworking of the most familiar of all the ancient Celtic ''Breastplate Prayers'', the Breastplate of St Patrick. This book draws upon the seventh century Breastplate of Saint Fursa. History doesn''t go into great detail in its record of Fursa''s life and Be thou my breastplate doesn''t pretend otherwise. The text takes what is known of h...