Bombadil wrote:Typically Arch flings up a link and hopes no one reads it but let's take a look..
Chad later travelled to Ireland as a monk, before he was ordained as a priest.
Ri-ight.. Ireland in the AD650's, when it was known as Costa Del Ireland.. and the only way to really travel was to be royalty or pretend to be a monk.. context people.
Chad's companion was Egbert, who was of about the same age as himself. The two travelled in Ireland for further study.
Otherwise known as his bro' *fistbump*, off to party it up and play beer pong overseas.
This means that Egbert and Chad must have gone to Ireland later than the death of Aidan, in 651.
Bede gives a long account of how Egbert fell dangerously ill in Ireland in 664 and vowed to follow a lifelong pattern of great austerity so that he might live to make amends for the follies of his youth.
Right.. so some 13 years partying it up and sleeping with a host of O'Stacy's Egbert becomes ill - STD anyone.. - and is all about the austerity for, and note, 'the follies of his youth'. Are we really to believe Chad wasn't all in with his bro'?
'Chad the Celibate' was clearly ironic, a typical bro' nickname if not quite the wingman opening.. 'oh hey, have you met my friend Chad, Chad the Celibate we call him..', 'oh my but his tonsured head is so cute..'.. it's on like donkey kong.
Not enough evidence?
St. Chad's Day (2 March) is traditionally considered the most propitious day to sow broad beans in England.
Yeah, lol, let's go sow some broad beans in celebration of the original Chad.
Nice try Arch.
You forgot this bit:
The Spa Research Fellowship states that Chad is the patron saint of medicinal springs
Oh yeah; hot-tubs, baby.
