{"podcast":{"title":"Medieval Death Trip","slug":"medieval-death-trip-994766","podcast_index_feed_id":994766,"rss_url":"https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com/?feed=podcast","website_url":"https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com","image_url":"https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/MDTCoverArt2026-1024x1024.jpg","author":"Patrick Lane","episode_count":128,"summary":"On Medieval Death Trip, we feature a selected medieval text (often historical, occasionally literary) that touches on the odd, the gruesome, the unexpected, and similarly curious incidents, images, or ideas. In addition to presenting the text itself, each episode features commentary and musings upon that text.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-04T18:19:24.007351+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/medieval-death-trip-994766"},"episode":{"title":"St. Patrick's Letter to Coroticus","slug":"st-patrick-s-letter-to-coroticus","published_at":"2025-03-17T18:37:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/medieval-death-trip-994766/st-patrick-s-letter-to-coroticus","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/medieval-death-trip-994766","url":"https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com/st-patricks-letter-to-coroticus/","audio_url":"https://www.medievaldeathtrip.com/podlove/file/229/s/feed/c/podcast/mdt-episode-113.mp3","summary":"For this St. Patrick's Day, we finally present the last canonical text written by St. Patrick, his letter to Coroticus, completing the series we began in Episode 68 with the first half of Patrick's Confessio. Today's Texts Patrick. Epistola ad Coroticum. St. Patrick: His Writings and Life, edited and translated by Newport J.D. White, Macmillan, 1920, pp. 52-60. Google Books. References Kelly, David. \"St Patrick's Writings: Confessio and Epistola.\" Saint Patrick's Confessio, Royal Irish Academy, 2011, www.confessio.ie/more/article_kelly#. Audio Credit: Father Ted, \"The Old Grey Whistle Theft,\" season 2, episode 4, written by Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews, 29 March 1996. Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction 00:08:10 Text: Patrick, Epistola ad Coroticum 00:21:00 Commentary 00:24:07 Mystery Word: húrla-hárla 00:25:11 Outro","meta_description":"For this St. Patrick's Day, we finally present the last canonical text written by St. Patrick, his letter to Coroticus, completing the series we began in…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1583,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/medieval-death-trip-994766/episodes/st-patrick-s-letter-to-coroticus/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/medieval-death-trip-994766/st-patrick-s-letter-to-coroticus.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}