Anyway Who is St. Patrick?


According to the Book World, St. Patrick lived around the years 389-461 AD, and is the patron of Ireland. He was mainly responsible for converting the Irish to Cristianos.Se became acquainted as apostle to the Irish. Its Latin name is Patrick. Patrick was born in England. His father was wealthy and Christian. When Patrick was 16 years old, pirates captured him during an assault and sold as a slave in Ireland. He served as a pastor in Northern Ireland. During his captivity, was devoted to religion. Depue, 6 years of slavery he escaped and returned home to England.

As a result of his experience in Ireland, Patrick was made compulsory by the idea of converting the Irish to Christians. Only prepared for the test, study in the monastery of Northern Ireland, on an island on the side of France. He also went to Auxerre, France and Religious Studies at San Geronimo, a French bishop. In part because their previous education was inadequate, their religion was superior to the sabiera recruited to return to Ireland as a missionary. After Palladius, the first Irish missionary bishop died in 431, Pope sent Patrick to Ireland.

Patrick began his work where there was no Christian preacher. The best truth and friendship of several leaders and soon made some conversions. He said he had found more than 300 churches and baptized more than 120,000 people. He brought the clergy in England and France for their new churches in their missions triumph in Ireland, though many British clergymen opposed him in the way he organized the churches. Patrick predators in Ireland for the rest of his life.

Various writings of Patrick have survived and served as the most important import sources to your work and life. Patrick wrote "Confession", an account of spiritual development. Hence the group justified its mission to Ireland and express his humility and gratitude that God haiga called on to serve the Irish. Patrick also wrote a letter to Corot, in which he criticized a robbery in Ireland Croticos led by a British leader during the robbery, several of Patrick's converts were killed. The letter also reflects the resentment of Patrick clergy attitude discover British and the Irish nobility.

St. Patrick is buried there? One legend has it that the same was buried in the tomb of St. Bridget and St. Columba in the town of Downpatrick, Down in the colony. St. Patrick's jaw is booked on a silver plate and for a long time people asked for her and took her to his house when someone was sick for protection from evil eye. Other legends say that the last days of St. Patrick's lived in Glastonbury and in that city was where he was buried. The chapel of St.. Patrick still exists as part of a monastery at Glastonbury. There is evidence of an Irish pilgrimage to his tomb during the reign of King Ine AD 688, when a group led by peregrineses San Indractus was killed. The big concern anxious to have the bodies or relics of saints, and that's why there are many variations of traditions of the place of where the body of St. Patrick and that everyone wanted a part of your body and others.

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