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St. Patrick of Ireland is one of the world's most popular saints. Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 461. Along with St. Nicholas and St. Valentine, the secular world shares our love of these saints. This is also a day when everyone's Irish. There are many legends and stories of St. Patrick, but this is his story. Patrick was born ... Continue Reading
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st patrick is a great saint
wow! this saint is great!
i wonder about ur facts though...... some jst dont seem right! well, thx anywaY!
Speling Error. St.ILLTUD should be St.ILLTYD. can you correct this for me!
St.Patrick was born in South Wales. Since my first comment (20/03/2011) I have done a lot of resarch into St.Patrick, and I have found out the following.
Calphurnius Sucatt and his wife Conchessa. Did have a son Maewyn Sucatt 385AD. As a child he was not religous, in fact he was an atheist. (His own words from one of his two letters)
Irish Pirates did carry out raids in South and West Wales, but they did not raid the area around Banna Venta Bernia (His other possile birth place) which was a long way East of Carlisle a very long way from the sea!
Calphurnius Sucatt was a roman officall (A Deacon) at one of two forts at Coelbren, one of them was very close to Bannwen at the top of the Dulais Valley (apx 20 miles from Neath). By the old Sarn Helen road. A stone still stands beside the Sarn Helen road in Bannwen, and commemorates his birth place 385AD.
Maewyn was kiddnapped at the age of 16 from the villa in Bannwen 401AD, and sold as a slave in Ireland. He turned to GOD for help while a slave. He escaped after 6 years, and returned to his parents in Wales. He then took up religous studies and was tutored by St. ILLTUD (Then Patron St. of Wales) at Llantwit Fawr (Lantwit Major, South Wales) who also tutored St. David in the same place.
Maewyh was consecrated in Rome with the name Patrick, and was sent back to Ireland and became ST.PATRICK!!!
Please forgive my clan O Dubhda (O dowd) for kidnapping you as a young man. Im sorry
Patrick was such an amazing man, but much of the info in this article is based on later, unreliable sources. Some of the rest of it is just wrong. For example, we don't know exactly when or where he was born, though it was probably during the late 4th century or early 5th along the western coast of Roman Britain. The two short letters Patrick left behind are the best and really the only reliable sources we have about him. They are the CONFESSION and LETTER TO THE SOLDIERS OF COROTICUS, available in bookstores or on-line. Three interesting facts from the letters: (1) He got in big trouble with the Church authorities for his unusual methods, (2) He never mentions Druids, and (3) Though raised in a Christian family, he became an atheist as a teenager, then turned again to God as a slave in Ireland.
Looking for Yvon Parade. I believe he is a member of St Patrick's Church. If possible could you give him my email address. This concerns a woman he knew in Ottawa, ON in 1974 by the name of Theresa Miron.
I was always taught in school back in the old sod that Patrick was kidnapped by Irish Pirates and that he was living in Wales at the time. Strategically, that would make more sense as the distance to the East Coast of Ireland from the Welsh Coast was just a short distance. In those Days, proably took about 5 or 6 hours as opposed to the Scottish Coast
why do we pray to st. patrick? Like 4 example we pray to st. anthony if we loose something.
THIS SAINT IS NOW DIAMONDS
Was St.Patrick born in Scotland ??? The Dulais Valley Heritage Trail, Clams he was born in Banwen. Dulais Valley, South Wales. 385AD. and to this day a stone now stands to commemorates the place where he was born. His Welsh name was said to be Maewyn Succat, and his farther Caiphurnius was a Roman official based at the fort at Coelbren. Maewyn was kidnapped at the age of 16, ad taken to Ireland as a slave.
A Roman Tombstone from the same fort is now in the Swansea Museum. Legend says that it stood in a circle where fairies danced,
In his book, St. Patrick of Ireland, Philip Freeman, claims that Patrick didn't use the shamrock to explain the Trinity. He calls this one of the "fictions created centuries later by well-meaning monks."
learn to spell when you comment people, :)
Thank you St. Patrick and all the other Saints. God gave all of you to us to help us learn and keep your word and faith true. Although I am not perfect, I will try hard every day to live as you want me to live, blessing you and praising you. Thank you God for giving me life. I remain your humble servant in Christ's name.
Saint Patrick, pray for us!
Dear St. Patrick,
Please pray for the people of Japan and others suffering throughtout the world. Thank you.
Amen
Um, Tommy...you are being very disrespectful. You have no proof, you give no resources, no evidence, you just make outrageous and hateful statements. This was not appropriate.
umm. I am a Pagan, and find it offensive that this figure has been celebrated for so long for doing things that are not talked about. For instance, Druids did not have slaves, how can a person that shuts himself from society have a slave? impossible. Druids were holy men, they were not evil voodoo practicing magicians, they loved the earth and loved science, and they also loved God, they just called God by different names.
Patrick killed enslaved and raped the Irish that did not convert. I love how the Catholics leave that part out, considering the fact that the early Britain made war on Ireland and enslaved Irish tribes into their army and slaughtered the resistance, it hardly surprises me that bit of info is left out. after all, history is not made from the whole truth, just the truth the Victor wishes you to hear.
Thanks for helping me explain St. Patrick to my third graders.
Martin, Scotland IS part of Great Britain.