- Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland
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Saint Patrick facts
- Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, along with saints Brigit of Kildare and Columba
- He is also venerated in the Anglican Communion, the Old Catholic Church and in the Eastern Orthodox Church as equal-to-apostles and the Enlightener of Ireland
- The dates of Patrick's life cannot be fixed with certainty but there is broad agreement that he was active as a missionary in Ireland during the second half of the fifth century
- Early medieval tradition credits him with being the first bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, and they regard him as the founder of Christianity in Ireland, converting a society practising a form of Celtic polytheism
- He has been generally so regarded ever since, despite evidence of some earlier Christian presence in Ireland
- According to the Confessio of Patrick, when he was about 16, he was captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain, and taken as a slave to Ireland, looking after animals, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family
- After becoming a cleric, he returned to northern and western Ireland
- In later life, he served as a bishop, but little is known about the places where he worked
- By the seventh century, he had already come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland
- Saint Patrick's Day is observed on 17 March, the supposed date of his death
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