For real, who is St. Patrick?

[BlissfullyCurSed]

[NamerOfStars]

A British (that is, a Romanized Celt, not an Englishman) guy who got captured in a slave raid and spent seven years tending sheep on an Antrim hillside, got rescued by pirates, got God to guide their ship to an island filled with pigs (the best food of all, to the old Irish mind), went home, got a vision to go back and preach to the Irish, whupped Palladius's ass in that department by preaching a Christian faith, rather than a Roman one, and is just about the only guy (Thomas being the only real contender) to introduce Christianity to a land successfully without violence.

The story would make a pretty good movie, I think; I've actually battered around the idea of writing a script for a while.

[BCRanger10]

A man who was taken from his family, spent several years as a slave in Ireland, and eventually returned to Ireland to bring Christianity. He is the patron saint of Ireland.

[BlissfullyCurSed]

Why do you celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the US then?

[BCRanger10]

I celebrate him because he's a Catholic Saint and I'm a Catholic as well. The US also has a pretty sizeable population of people of Irish ancestry. As for everyone else? They're just looking for excuses to get drunk, have hookups, and do everything else that this holy man would certainly have condemned.

[purplepoppy]

He's Maewyn Succat a Romano-Briton. In his autobiography he tells how he was plucked from the bog by pirates in a place called Taburnae Bannavem, a place which today's village knows as Tafarn y Banwen or the Tavern at Banwen in South Wales.https://llandaff.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-blog/village-re-enacts-kidnapping-st-patrick-celebrate-its-claim-be-home-patron-saint-ireland/

Fast forward a few years and he changes his name to Padrig from the Latin Patricius meaning father and went back to Ireland to teach those naughty people about jesus.

[BlissfullyCurSed]

But from what I have heard, people are still naughty there.😔😔😔

[laly520]

one of the patron saints of Ireland and is widely celebrated as the man who brought Christianity to the island

[BlissfullyCurSed]

youtube.com/shorts/msztoQSuslA?feature=shared
so he is not Patrick from Spongebob. I am disappointed.

[Anonymous]

I'd like to think I inspired this question.

[BlissfullyCurSed]

Maybe...😈😈😈

[Opinion Owner]

Are u wearing green?

[strateguy632]

a famous missionary, martyr.