Life of saint patrick biography
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St Patrick - The Legend of St. Patrick, the Patron Saint of Ireland
Saint Patrick of Ireland
Born AD, Died AD
St Patrick wrote an autobiographical “confession” that has survived until our time.
We can therefore hear him tell us about much of his life in his own words.
Life of saint patrick biography
St Patrick begins by humbly calling himself “a sinner, a most simple countryman, the least of all the faithful and most contemptible to many…” His father was a deacon named Calpurnius, and as a boy Patrick lived in a settlement called Bannavem Taburniae in Scotland.
His mother was Conchessa, who was related to St. Martin of Tours. As a boy of about sixteen years of age Patrick was taken captured by marauders and taken to Ireland to work as a slave, which he says was just punishment for not following the precepts of God.
Patrick tended his master’s sheep, and during that time he relates that “the Lord opened my mind to an awareness of my unbelief, in order that, even so late, I might remember my trans