He cannot allow that St.Patrick's mother was a relative of St.
Martin of Tours, obviously because St.Martin's Catholicity is incontrovertible.

He wastes pages in a vain attempt to disprove St.
Patrick's Roman mission, for similar reasons; and he cannot even admit that the Irish received the faith as a nation, all despite the clearest evidence; yet so strong is the power of prejudice, that he accepts far less proof for other questions.
[120] _Victoricus_ .-- There were two saints, either of whom might have been the mysterious visitant who invited St.Patrick to Ireland.

St.
Victoricus was the great missionary of the Morini, at the end of the fourth century.

There was also a St.Victoricus who suffered martyrdom at Amiens, A.D.286.

Those do not believe that the saints were and are favoured with supernatural communications, and whose honesty compels them to admit the genuineness of such documents as the Confession of St.
Patrick, are put to sad straits to explain away what he writes.
[121] _Lerins .-- See Monks of the West_, v.i.p.463.It was then styled _insula beata_.
[122] _St.Germain_ .-- St.Fiacc, who, it will be remembered, was contemporary with St.Patrick, write thus in his Hymn: "The angel, Victor, sent Patrick over the Alps; Admirable was his journey-- Until he took his abode with Germanus, Far away in the south of Letha.