St. Patrick Research Paper
St. Patrick was a Roman missionary and bishop in Ireland.His full name was Magonius Sucatus Patricius. He was born in 387 AD. The dates of his life cannot be fixed with certainty but, on a widespread interpretation, he was active as a missionary in Ireland during the second half of the fifth century.Patrick was born into a religious family, but was an atheist early in his life. He was supposedly sixteen when he was captured by Irish pirates and taken to Ireland to be a slave who looked after the animals. It was during that time he became a devout Christian. He turned to God and wrote a confession that said "The love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a
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In the dioceses of Ireland, it is both a solemnity and a holy day of obligation; it is also a celebration of Ireland itself. St. Patrick preached and converted all of Ireland to Christianity. He worked many miracles and wrote of his love for God in Confessions.He merged Christianity with more traditional parts of Irish culture, including adding bonfires to the Easter celebrations and creating the Celtic cross, which incorporates the sun with the cross. He also is largely responsible for helping convert the Irish to Christianity. St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, according to legend. However, today we understand that Ireland is snakeless because of its climate and the water that surrounds it is too cold for British snakes to migrate over. The snakes are believed to be symbols of the Pagan religions. He used the shamrock to preach about the trinity. Many claim the shamrock represents faith, hope, and love, or any number of other things, but it was actually used by Patrick to teach the mystery of the Holy Trinity, and how three things, the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit could be separate entities, yet one in the
In the dioceses of Ireland, it is both a solemnity and a holy day of obligation; it is also a celebration of Ireland itself. St. Patrick preached and converted all of Ireland to Christianity. He worked many miracles and wrote of his love for God in Confessions.He merged Christianity with more traditional parts of Irish culture, including adding bonfires to the Easter celebrations and creating the Celtic cross, which incorporates the sun with the cross. He also is largely responsible for helping convert the Irish to Christianity. St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, according to legend. However, today we understand that Ireland is snakeless because of its climate and the water that surrounds it is too cold for British snakes to migrate over. The snakes are believed to be symbols of the Pagan religions. He used the shamrock to preach about the trinity. Many claim the shamrock represents faith, hope, and love, or any number of other things, but it was actually used by Patrick to teach the mystery of the Holy Trinity, and how three things, the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit could be separate entities, yet one in the