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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9703041" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Yes.  It was a process that took place over several centuries, and we have surviving period texts (such as the Uraicecht Becc and Bretha Crólige) showing that, for example, druids retained legal rights and status, though much diminished, until about 500 years after Patrick.  Christianity became the majority religion around 200 years after Patrick, which is when the first really exaggerated hagiography (Patrick of Miurchu's Life of St. Patrick) appears, with the first claims of him righteously kicking druid backside. Though that one pales beside the tales in Jocelyn of Furness' 12th century hagiography (the one which pinched the story of driving out the venomous snakes and toads and reptiles from St. Columba's hagiography, for example).Yes, though Remmick's monologue on conversion did strike me a little odd, because that attitude towards the conversion, is to my perception, relatively modern.  Echoing 20th century neopagan and popular misconceptions about the church and some bad historic takes I grew up with in the neopagan community, before we had better scholarship.</blockquote>