As you most likely know to day is St. Patrick’s Day. (If you’re not wearing green pinch yourselves for us!) But most likely you don’t know much about the actual person St. Patrick. So we at WNBNI have compiled a short list of information on him and how he changed history. For more information on him click here.
*St. Patrick didn’t chase the snakes out of Ireland (snakes just naturally don’t really like Ireland or something) it was a metaphor for how well he converted the people of Ireland.
*St. Patrick was not Irish. He was from England.
*St. Patrick was kidnapped by pirates and taken to Ireland where he was a slave for 6 years.
*St. Patrick then escaped, returned home and studied to be a priest. He later returned to Ireland to share the Gospel with them and live with the Irish people the rest of his life.
*St. Patrick was the first person to evangelize outside of the Greco-Roman world. And invented ways to convert people in their religion while letting them keep their distinct culture.
*The Christianization of Ireland lead to it persevering literacy when the Roman Empire fell sending Europe into the Dark Age.
*St. Patrick was one of the 1st people known to speak out against slavery and he greatly helped to end the slave trade and human sacrifices in Ireland.
*St. Patrick spoke highly of women during a time when it was unheard of for men to do so.
*St. Patrick was a mystic and returned to Ireland because of a dream.
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