St. Patrick – Ireland’s Patron Saint

St. Patrick is Ireland’s patron saint, even though he was not a native Irishman. He was born in either Scotland or Roman England in the later half of the 4th century AD. His parents were Romans living in Britain and when he was fourteen or so, he was captured by pirates along with other children and sold into slavery in Ireland...

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