Some Facts on St. Patrick

- St. Patrick wasn’t Irish and 1st came to Ireland as a slave.
- St. Patrick was from a Roman family living in Britain, possibly in an area now part of Scotland.
- He wasn’t the 1st person who was sent out as a missionary to Ireland, but the 1st guy quit.
- The 1st church in Ireland started out as a barn and was a gift to St. Patrick from a chieftain.
- St. Patrick spent much time in prayer and is said to have had visions of angels including one and which it is said that he was told that he would be allowed to judge the Irish race on Judgment Day and the seven years before that the sea would wipe out Ireland saving its people from the Antichrist.
- St. Patrick is thought to have died on March 17th 493.