text: There is much controversy about what was going on in Irish Christianity. We do know that Patrick handed out the Torah when converting pagans to Christianity. We know that the Irish were accused through the Middle Ages of Judaizing-observing Jewish feasts, using the Jewish date for Passover as Easter, having a clearer understanding of ancient Christian/Jewish doctrine of the resurrection of the body with little thought of the separation of body and soul. As for Judaizing practices, my parents' families in Ireland held to practices characteristic of Jews though they did not think of them as Jewish, just as handed down to them as ancient binding customs. For instance, one of my uncles felt obliged to marry his brother's widow. When  a person died the family and neighbors sat together with the body over one night and buried the body in the morning. A Requiem Mass was said 3 days later and a Munce Mine (?) Mass thirty day later for those who had to travel from a distance.