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Saint Patrick
Catholic missionary, bishop, and saint
For other uses, see Saint Patrick (disambiguation).
Saint Patrick | |
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Stained-glass window of St. Patrick from Saint Patrick Catholic Church, Junction City, Ohio, United States | |
| Born | Roman or sub-Roman Britain |
| Died | mid-fifth to early-sixth century Ireland |
| Venerated&#;in | |
| Major shrine | |
| Feast | 17 March (Saint Patrick's Day) |
| Attributes | Crozier, mitre, holding a shamrock, carrying a cross, repelling serpents, harp |
| Patronage | Ireland, Nigeria, Montserrat, Archdiocese of New York, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Boston, Rolla, Missouri, Loíza, Puerto Rico, Murcia (Spain), Clann Giolla Phádraig, engineers, paralegals, Archdiocese of Melbourne; invoked against snakes, sins[1] |
Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius; Irish: Pádraig[ˈpˠɑːɾˠɪɟ] or [ˈpˠaːd̪ˠɾˠəɟ]; Welsh: Padrig) was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missiona
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Saint Patrick
Image: Sculpture of Saint Patrick of Ireland | Saint Augustine church, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | photo bygd Reinhardhauke
Saint of the Day for March 17
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Saint Patrick’s Story
Legends about Patrick abound; but truth is best served by our seeing two solid qualities in him: He was humble and he was courageous. The determination to accept suffering and success with equal indifference guided the life of God’s instrument for winning most of Ireland for Christ.
Details of his life are uncertain. Current research places his dates of birth and death a little later than earlier accounts. Patrick may have been born in Dunbarton, Scotland, Cumberland, England, or in northern Wales. He called han själv both a Roman and a Briton. At 16, he and a large number of his father’s slaves and vassals were captured by Irish raiders and sold as slaves in Ireland. Forced to work as a shepherd, he suffered greatly from hunger and cold.
After six years Patrick escaped,
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St Patrick was a 5th century missionary who arrived in Ireland in the second half of the century to spread the word of Christianity. He made his roots in Northern Ireland in County Armagh and County Down.
Ireland’s patron saint was born circa in England, to a father who was a deacon and a mother who was supposedly related to St Martin of Tours. Despite his holy connections, St Patrick is not thought to have had a particularly zealous religious upbringing.
The story of St Patrick really starts when he was 16 years old. He was captured bygd Irish bandits and sold into slavery in County Antrim. He remained in captivity here for six years, tending sheep in the Slemish mountains. According to folklore he saw this time as God’s way of testing his faith and he soon became devoted to Christianity.
Around , St Patrick is said to have had a dream in which he escaped slavery and returned to England. Upon waking he decided to make this dream a reality. He flydde his captors and convinced some