St. Patrick: Man, Myth & Holiday
St. Patrick's Story
St. Patrick of Ireland is one of the world's most popular saints. Along with St. Nicholas and St. Valentine, the secular world shares our love of these saints. Many legends and stories of St. Patrick exsist, but this is his story.
St. Patrick's Day Quotes
St. Patrick's day quotes that help sum up this rowdy and revered holiday
Irish Recipes for St. Patrick's Day
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Prayers of St. Patrick
Prayer about St. Patrick
Lorica of Saint Patrick
St Patrick's Breastplate
Prayer for the Faithful by Saint Patrick
Writings of St. Patrick
Confessio: The Confession of St. Patrick
Epistola ad Coroticum: Letter To Coroticus
De abusionibus saeculi
De Tribus habitaculis
Collectio Hibernensis Canonum: Irish Collection of Canon law
A New Springtime for the Church in Ireland: Who is Saint Patrick and Why Does it Matter?
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 3/17/2013
His story still inspires us for a reason. It needs to be heard once again and written in the lives of contemporary saints for the Third Christian millennium, a new missionary age. Let us pray for the Church of Jesus Christ which Patrick helped to plant in Ireland. Let us ask the Lord ...
St. Patrick: Saint for the New Evangelization and Missionary Model for Today
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 3/17/2013
We need to learn from this great missionary for our work in a Pre-Christian West. Patrick saw what was good in the culture and "baptized" what could be redeemed. He respected the civil order, but never compromised the true faith. He won the next generation, preaching the Gospel without compromise ...
Bet you didn't know these 10 things about St. Patrick and Ireland!
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 3/17/2013
The most kids know of St. Patrick 's Day is that you must wear green or you'll get a pinch from your friends. Adults see the day as an occasion to celebrate, sometimes with green beer and other assorted alcoholic beverages. However, few really know what they are celebrating or why the holiday is so ...
After the Corned Beef: St. Patrick Challenges Modern Christians to be Missionaries
By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 3/17/2013
We need to learn a lesson from this great missionary. He saw what was good in the culture and "baptized" what could be redeemed. He respected the civil order, but never compromised the faith. Then, he went for the next generation with all his efforts, preaching the Gospel without compromise and ...
Why it's an inconvenient Lent: St. Valentine's and St. Patrick's
By Marshall Connolly, Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) • Catholic Online • 3/15/2013
For some, this will be an inconvenient Lent. St. Valentine's Day, typically celebrated with sweets, falls a day after Lent begins.However, for Irish Americans who like corned beef and suds on St Patrick's Day, that holiday which often falls on a Friday, which is a day of abstinence, the get a ...
St. Patrick in the Catholic Encyclopedia
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Croagh Patrick, i.e. St. Patrick's mountain. This mountain was one of his places of retreat and stories state this is where his ministry to Ireland began.
St. Patrick's Purgatory, one of his chosen places of solitude and retreat was the island of Lough Derg.
Patrician Brothers, founding the Religious congregation of the Brothers of Saint Patrick.
Maynooth College, the National College of Saint Patrick, at Maynooth in County Kildare, about twelve miles from Dublin, founded in the year 1795.
Marie de France contributions to French literature consist of lays, the "Ysopet", and a romance published by Roquefort under the title, "Legend of the Purgatory of Saint Patrick"
Aubrey Thomas Hunt de Vere traces the progress of spiritual thought in the development of the nations, notably Ireland, in "The Legend of St. Patrick" (London, 1872)
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