Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, seventeenth of March
Patron Saint of Ireland, Australia, Nigeria, Montserrat
Saint Patrick ( )is
the patron saint of Ireland. He was
captured by a raiding party of the Picts, from a Roman Colony in (Scotland or Armoric,
Gaul)at the age of sixteen(c.403).1,2 He
was sold as a slave to Milcho. He cared for the man’s sheep and learned the language
and customs of Ireland. He later escaped back to what is now the Island of
Britain. He became a monk with the
intent to return to Ireland as a missionary.
He needed the permission of Pope Clementine in Rome. He then went back to Ireland to minister to
the Irish. He used the shamrock to
explain how God the Father, God the Son (Christ/Messiah) and God the Spirit
(Holy Ghost) are one in the same (all linked).
Incorprated … into the Celtic Cross.
c. 403 (age 16 estimated) captured and sold into slavery
c.403-c.409 slave, isolated shepherd
409 returned home
Ordained a priest
Received permission from Pope Clemintine to return to
Ireland
432 - 461AD Ireland’s second Archbishop of Armagh and
Primate of all Ireland.2
Died. 461 AD in the
village Saul
INTERESTING: “Many monk missionaries left Ireland … [and] went
to Spain and Saint Brendan the Abbot even went to North America
(474-577).”2
1 McSpadden, J. Walker.
The Book of Holidays. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company,
1917. Pp.70-79. Library call #J394.2M
