Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick was born in Kilpatrick, Scotland, in the year 387. His parents are Calphurnius and Conchessa. When Patrick was sixteen, he was carried off into captivity by Irish marauders and was sold as a striver to a chieftan named Milchu in Dalriada. In Dalriada, he tended his masters flocks in the valley of the Braid and on the slopes of Slemish. When he was works the fields, he acquired a perfect knowledge of the Celtic tongue.His master was a druidical superior priest, in which gave Patrick an opportunity to become beaten(prenominal) with all the details of Druidism from whose bondage he was destined to liberate the Irish race. Warned by an angel after six years, he fled from his cruel master and bent his move toward the western hemisphere. He traveled about two hundred miles to Westport. He bring a transport ready to sail and after many a(prenominal) rebuffs was allowed on board. In a some days he arrived in Britain, and now his heart was flummox on devoting himse lf to the service of God in the consecrated ministry.after wandering in complex forest for twenty-eight days they were found by others and eventually Patrick made it spot to his family. He remained with them for a few years, and whence decided to pursue the priesthood in make out to dreams he had about returning to Ireland. After a number of years, while he was on a short ascertain to the continent, probably Gaul, his name was proposed to lead a missionary expedition to Ireland. He set out around the year 432 as a bishop, and went to the headquarters of the Ulaid in Emain Macha, and at that place established his first church at what is now Armagh.From there he traveled predominantly in the north and west and made many converts, and trained many priests. After some time, his integrity was questioned, resulting in an inquiry at the hands of the British bishops, but he was subsequently vindicated. As the Ulaid were pushed out of more and more territory, Patrick locomote with the m to spend his last days in Down, from which he wrote his Confession. He died March 17, 461, in Downpatrick, Ireland. Kilpatrick still retains many memorials of Saint Patrick. His fete day, St. Patricks Day, is March 17, or the day he died.