Ablaze

• ablaze: Dublin's coat of arms has 3 castles arranged in a triangle with flames appearing out of their tops; the flames are said to represent the ardour of the citizenry

• fireland was ablaze: St Patrick's foreknowledge of the three orders of Irish saints is said to have resulted from three visions: (1) Ireland all ablaze; (2) only the mountains on fire (FW 022.02-03); (3) lamps lit in the valley (FW 022.27-28)
  • Another reference to Flood’s Ireland, Its Saints and Scholars (43): 'An ancient Irish manuscript of unknown authorship divides the Saints of Ireland into three great orders. The First Order was in the time of St. Patrick... The Second Order... flourished during the latter half of the sixth century. The Third Order of Saints lived in Ireland for a period which extended for about seventy years from the end of the sixth century. The writer of the manuscript says that "the First Order was most holy, the Second Order holier, and the Third holy... These Three Orders the blessed Patrick foreknew, enlightened by heavenly wisdom, when in prophetic vision he saw at first all Ireland ablaze, and afterwards only the mountains on fire; and at last saw lamps lit in the valleys"'