St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography

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Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend, but the true story of St. Patrick is far more inspiring than the myths. In St. Patrick of Ireland, Philip Freeman brings the historic Patrick and his world vividly to life. Patrick speaks in his own voice in two remarkable letters he wrote about himself and his beliefs, new translations of which are included here and which are still astonishing for their passion and eloquence.

Born late in the fourth century to an aristocratic British family, Patrick's life was changed forever when he was abducted and taken to Ireland just before his sixteenth birthday. He spent six grueling years there as a slave, but the ordeal turned him from an atheist into a true believer. After a vision in which God told him he would go home, Patrick escaped captivity and, following a perilous journey, returned safely to Britain to the amazement of his family. But even more amazing to them was his announcement that he intended to go back to Ireland to spend the rest of his life ministering to the people who had once enslaved him.

Set against the turbulent backdrop of the British Isles during the last years of the Roman Empire, St. Patrick of Ireland brilliantly brings to life the real Patrick, shorn of legend, a man whose deep spiritual conviction and devotion helped to transform a country.

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Ireland's patron saint has long been shrouded in legend: he drove the snakes out of Ireland; he triumphed over Druids and their supernatural powers; he used a shamrock to explain the Christian mystery of the Trinity. But his true story is more fascinating than the myths. We have no surviving image of Patrick, but we do have two remarkable letters that he wrote about himself and his beliefs -- letters that tell us more about the heart and soul of this man than we know about almost any of his contemporaries. In St. Patrick of Ireland Philip Freeman brings the historic Patrick and his world vividly to life.

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Riveting Information.......2007-05-22

This is an excellent book that details the geography and history of the times, and the station of life that young Patrick hailed from. All of these background historical details are vital in understanding better Patrick's life and ministry. The author appeared to be as thorough as possible. What was startling was just how depraved, pagan, and cruel, at least the roving Irish were (slave traders, murderers, even cannibals) without the tempering influence of Christianity. It makes one realize how the conversion of Ireland did in fact bring the kind of normalcy that most of us take for granted within the context of civilized society.

March 17 is not about Shamrocks and Green Pint - but Liberation.......2007-03-17

Trivia: Patrick once considered himself a pagan until divine intervention caused him to become the one who drove them out of the Emerald Isle when pagan icons failed to relieve from captivity. St. Patrick's day was a celebration of liberation from the spiritual bondage of pagan practices.

St. Patrick of Ireland, like St. Valentine of Rome, has been commercialized in that pagan secular way of merchandising. St. Patrick drive the snakes out of Ireland when he converted the druids and other animal worship practices into Christianity. It was for this achievement that he was made a Saint.

St. Patrick's Day is his feast day which has turned into a parade for Leprachuans, Shamrocks, Lucky Charms, and all sorts of Druid icons. Nonetheless, there was a historical man who became St. Patrick.

Some historical notes for those interested: Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá 'le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially Paddy's Day or St. Patty's Day, is the feast day which annually celebrates Saint Patrick (373-493), the patron saint of Ireland, on March 17, the day on which St. Patrick died.

It is the Irish national holiday and one of the public holidays in the Republic of Ireland (a bank holiday in Northern Ireland); the overseas territory of Montserrat; and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. In the United States, Australia, and rest of Canada it is widely celebrated, although not an official holiday.

It became a feast day in the universal church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding, as a member of the commission for the reform of the Breviary [1] in the early part of the 17th century.

The person who was to become St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was born in Roman Britain about AD 385. His given name was Maewyn, and he almost didn't get the job of bishop of Ireland because he lacked the required scholarship.

Far from being a saint, until he was 16, he considered himself a pagan. At that age, he was sold into slavery by a group of Irish marauders that raided his village. During his captivity, he became closer to God.

He escaped from slavery after six years and went to Gaul where he studied in the monastery under St. Germain, bishop of Auxerre for a period of twelve years. During his training he became aware that his calling was to convert the pagans to Christianity.

He wished to return to Ireland and to convert the native pagans to Christianity, but his superiors instead appointed St. Palladius. However, two years later Palladius transferred to Scotland. Patrick, having adopted that Christian name earlier, was then appointed as second bishop to Ireland.

Patrick was quite successful at winning converts which upset the Celtic Druids. Patrick was arrested several times, but escaped each time. He traveled throughout Ireland, establishing monasteries across the country. He also set up schools and churches which would aid him in his conversion of the Irish country to Christianity.

His mission in Ireland lasted for thirty years. After that time, Patrick retired to County Down. He died on March 17 in AD 461. That day has been commemorated as St. Patrick's Day ever since.

Much Irish folklore surrounds St. Patrick's Day. Not much of it is actually substantiated.

Some of this lore includes the belief that Patrick raised people from the dead. He also is said to have given a sermon from a hilltop that drove all the snakes from Ireland. Of course, no snakes were ever native to Ireland, and some people think this is a metaphor for the conversion of the pagans. Though originally a Catholic holy day, St. Patrick's Day has evolved into more of a secular holiday.

One traditional icon of the day is the shamrock. This stems from a more bona fide Irish tale that tells how Patrick used the three-leafed shamrock to explain the Trinity. He used it in his sermons to represent how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit could all exist as separate elements of the same entity. His followers adopted the custom of wearing a shamrock on his feast day.

The St. Patrick's Day custom came to America in 1737, the first year St. Patrick's Day was publicly celebrated, in Boston, Mass.

Today, people celebrate the day with parades, wearing green, and drinking beer. One reason St. Patrick's Day might have become so popular is that it takes place just a few days before the first day of spring. One might say it has become the first green of spring.

In the recent past, Saint Patrick's Day was celebrated only as a religious holiday. It became a public holiday in 1903, by the Bank Holiday (Ireland) Act 1903, an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament introduced by the Irish MP James O'Mara[3]. O'Mara later introduced the law which required that pubs be closed on March 17[4], a provision which was repealed only in the 1970s. The first St. Patrick's Day parade held in the Irish Free State was held in Dublin in 1931 and was reviewed by the then Minister of Defence Desmond Fitzgerald. Although secular celebrations now exist, the holiday is still a religious observance in some areas.

It was only in the mid-1990s that the Irish government began a campaign to use Saint Patrick's Day to showcase Ireland and its culture.[2] The government set up a group called St. Patrick's Festival, with the aim to:

--Offer a national festival that ranks amongst all of the greatest celebrations in the world and promote excitement throughout Ireland via innovation, creativity, grassroots involvement, and marketing activity.
--Provide the opportunity and motivation for people of Irish descent, (and those who sometimes wish they were Irish) to attend and join in the imaginative and expressive celebrations.
--Project, internationally, an accurate image of Ireland as a creative, professional and sophisticated country with wide appeal, as we approach the new millennium.[5]
The first Saint Patrick's Festival was held on March 17, 1996. In 1997, it became a three-day event, and by 2000 was a four-day event. By 2006, the festival was five days long.

The topic of the 2004 St. Patrick's Symposium was "Talking Irish," during which the nature of Irish identity, economic success, and the future were discussed. Since 1996, there has been a greater emphasis on celebrating and projecting a fluid and inclusive notion of "Irishness" rather than an identity based around traditional religious or ethnic allegiance. The week around Saint Patrick's Day usually involves Irish speakers using more Irish during seachtain na Gaeilge ("Irish Week").

Shamrock ("three-leaf clover")Many Irish people still wear a bunch of shamrocks on their lapels or caps on this day or green, white, and orange badges (after the colours of the Irish flag). Girls and boys wear green in their hair. Artists draw shamrock designs on people's cheeks as a cultural sign, including American tourists.

A very ordinary man who accomplished extraordinary things in his lifetime........2006-04-13

I'm personally challenged by the life of Patrick, kidnapped as a teenager and escaping as a young adult only to return to the land of his captors to serve the people there for the remainder of his life. He began entirely new communities and raised the standard for equal treatment of women in a time when they were thought of as little better than property. Amazing as that was, he grew to genuinely love and care for the Irish, although they were considerably less developed and a harsher people than his own. Freeman gives finely researched historical background to the times and context that Patrick lived in - both in Roman Britain and in Ireland. I learned heaps and it wasn't at all painful.

A Magical and Poetic Work of Art!!.......2005-04-27

I was shocked at how beautiful this biography turned out to be! I expected a lot of non-essential information, but there was a wealth of information on the real man who was St. Patrick. The author is a 'wielder of words' and really drew me into the life and times of St. Patrick. A lovely, highly-readable, and now very treasured book in my library!

The Truth about St. Patrick.......2005-04-19

In regard to the life of St. Patrick, there are a lot of misconceptions. It is a myth that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. Even if this were true, it would not necessarily qualify him as a saint. Myths such as this were written only to further St. Patrick's legacy. St. Patrick is recognized as having brought Christianity to Ireland with dedication that could only have come from God. In his book, Philip Freeman, tells what we know to be the truth about the saint's life based on his personal letters.

Few people remember that Patrick was actually a British nobleman. At sixteen years of age, he was kidnapped from his homeland to be taken to Ireland in slavery. He spent six years in slavery before the voice of God told him how to escape. Escaping as worker on a cargo ship despite insurmountable odds, St. Patrick is able to return to his homeland. When he returns home, God informs him in a dream that he must return to Ireland to spread the Good News of the Lord. This was a job that few Christians wanted as Ireland was run by savage pagans. St. Patrick followed God's call and studied to become a deacon, then priest, before becoming the bishop of Ireland. His work is phenomenal because he reached so many people, most by preaching to individuals. While his education was more limited than many clergymen of his time, the simple truths he taught built a great nation of Christianity.

In the book, Freeman gives the best possible account of St. Patrick's life as the sparse records of the past will allow. Unlike other biographers, he does not embellish the life of this saint. Freeman's voice seems very removed from the subject as he writes giving the book a very impersonal feeling. I also object to the redundancy in Freeman's writing as he often repeats himself and goes for pages only writing about Patrick's era not St. Patrick himself. While I do not fault him for the limited amount of imformation on the saint's life, straying from the subject of St. Patrick's life for long periods of the book is inexcusable. That being said, the book is accurate and a easy read.

The life of St. Patrick: And his place in history

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Fine, Objective Study of Patrick
dated critical study: good, but not for generalists
Rediscovering the Real Man Behind the Day of Revelry
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The life of St. Patrick: And his place in history
J. B Bury
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This classic biography first appeared in 1905 and still offers a valuable resource to scholars, theologians, and others interested in Irish history. The well-documented study depicts St. Patrick’s early life in 4th-century Britain during the Roman occupation, his abduction by Irish raiders, his conversion to Christianity, and his lifelong efforts to convert pagans and found churches.

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Fine, Objective Study of Patrick.......2001-10-14

As he does with most of his work, Bury deserves more accolades for this critical study into St. Patrick and the varied evidence that exists to explain his life and times. Shrouded in mystery and legend, much of this "evidence" can only be trusted to a certain degree or must be considered within the broader context of the evidence's own origins, and it is this realization that Bury uses to craft the first modern and critical assessment of Patrick. Each unique source is discussed as to what its individual reliability and relevance is, then all of the specifics on this study are masterfully organized in a thorough appendix of which Bury could have been proud.
With this critical evaluation method forming the basis for Bury's study, the end result is a very readable and engaging overview into the life of St. Patrich and the christianization of Ireland, a process that has been largely simplified and therefore obscured by a wealth of legends and myths. As interesting and valuable as these myths are for their own purposes, they cannot meet the needs of the true objective historian, and for this person Bury presents the original alternative from obscurity to scholarship.
Though more recent literature on the subject exists, the general study by Bury still stands as a valuable and respectable Patrick source and I feel comfortable advising anyone with an interest in Irish or also Christianity's early history to give it a look.
Like always, Bury's book is a winner indeed.

dated critical study: good, but not for generalists.......2001-10-05

John Bury published his life of St. Patrick in 1905, and the Dover edition is an unabridged republication of that work. It includes an introduction written by Liam de Paor in 1998. It is regarded as a classic in the study of St. Patrick and provided the generally accepted interpretation of his life up until the publication in 1942 of a lecture by T.F. O'Rahilly entitled "The Two Patricks." There have been significant and substantial changes in the academic understanding of St. Patrick since the publication of John Bury's work. As Liam de Paor notes, "The perspective provided by the research of the present century mainly is based on a more rigorous criticism of the Irish sources. We can no longer, for example, take Irish fifth-century annals as contemporary, or even near contemporary, with the events they record. They are reconstructions, embodying much guesswork, made by scholars and disputants of the seventh and eighth centuries, who sought to cast their interpretation of earlier times in annalistic form. Nor can we take at face value the work of seventh-century hagiographers such as Muirchu and Tirechan, both of whom produced accounts of Patrick in the service of the claims of Armagh. Bury, of course, by his training and background, well understood the importance of the criticism of sources. However, he did not have available the results of the work on early Irish texts that has been done by numerous scholars over the past ninety years, and he was led into undue reliance on secondary and tertiary sources for want of better ones. Our picture of fifth-century Ireland is very different now from what it was at the start of the twentieth century." (pp. xix - xx)

The book is 404 pages long excluding the introduction and preface and consists of four main sections. The first section is 224 pages long: Bury's account and discussion of St. Patrick's life, its significance and context. The print is large and considered by itself this section could serve as a quick introduction to the basic narrative of St. Patrick's life and times. However, as de Paor notes, the scholarship on this subject has progressed significantly since 1905 and there were several instances where I had wished that the author had explored his subject further. For example, it appears that St. Patrick had designated funds for the manumission of Christian slaves in Ireland and had established rules for the use thereof. Pope Gregory apparently OK'd this procedure for use in Britain as well. Was this standard procedure for proselytizing missions in the 5th Century AD or was it confined to the far reaches of the occident? Were there any Papal rulings on the institution of slavery or was this just a tactic used in the far West, perhaps one that originated with St. Patrick given that much of his youth was spent as a captive sold into slavery? In any case, at least for me, there were several instances where I supposed the author presumed his audience was familiar with more of the context of those times than I think most general readers could be reasonably expected to know.

Pages 295 to 391 are Appendices A - C: notes on the sources, notes on the text, and extended discussions on particularly vexing questions, respectively. The print for these is quite small, and there are a number of difficulties for the general reader. To begin with, readers without Latin will find it difficult to tease out useful information from these as much of the critical evidence is presented in Latin which is not translated. (The main narrative also contains Latin, but I think the context makes it comprehensible.) There is also some -- though not much -- ancient Greek. Also, the text itself infrequently indicates when you should refer to the endnotes and sometimes refers you to endnotes that do not exist. The maps included do not highlight those places in Ireland that St. Patrick visited, there is no map for Britain or Gaul (which are important elements of the story), no line indicating the suggested paths St. Patrick took and no chronology. Moreover, since much of the endnotes are concerned with scholarly disputes that were current in 1905, which may or may not have much relevance to the current discussion, I imagine that they are of much more moment to those interested in the historiography of the study of St. Patrick in the early 20th century than they are to generalists like myself.

To sum up, I think that the general reader will profit from Bury's basic account of St. Patrick's life, but should be aware that much of the scholarship is outdated and that much of the supporting notes will be dated and unintelligible to him if he does not know Latin. Paor, in the introduction, mentions two studies "which should be consulted by the serious inquirer into these matters" (p. xix), R.P.C. Hanson's "St. Patrick--His Origins and Career" and E.A. Thompson's "Who Was St. Patrick?", but I cannot vouch for their accessibility to the general reader because I have not read them. Bury's index is good and comprehensive.

Rediscovering the Real Man Behind the Day of Revelry.......2001-04-23

Out of the millions of people who lived and died in the fifth century A.D., the names of only two are widely recognized throughout the English-speaking world today: Attila the Hun and St. Patrick. And Attila isn't commemorated by an annual day of remembrance that is observed from Temple Bar to the Golden Gate. This book, authored nearly a century ago by a distinguished British historian of Late Antiquity, seeks to recover the real Patrick from the legends and haze (perhaps induced from drinking too much green beer?) that have come to surround him.

Bury's expertise in the late Roman Empire (he is better known today for a series of the lectures, "The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians" and a two-volume history of the later Roman Empire from 395-565 A.D.) serves him well in this exploration of the world of St. Patrick. Patrick was born in western Britain in the late 4th century, probably around 388-390 A.D. At this time, Britain was still a distant province of the Roman Empire, but it was being rapidly being stripped of its defensive troops in order to meet the more central threat to the Empire presented by barbarian invaders like Alaric and the Visigoths. These grand historical currents impacted Patrick's life very directly at the time of his sixteenth birthday, around the years 404-05 A.D. Niall, High King of Ireland, took advantage of Britain's weakened defenses to launch a piratical raid up the Severn estuary. Patrick was captured and carried off into slavery as a prize of war.

For some six or seven years, Patrick was assigned to watch over the livestock of his new master in the wilds of sparsely populated western Connaught -- very likely, Bury thinks, on the prominent mountain and pilgrimage site that to this day is known as Croagh Patrick. His servitude lasted for six or seven years, during which time he developed the passionate Christian faith that determined the course of the rest of his life. Then he managed to escape and made his way to one of the ports along the country's southeastern coast, where he was taken aboard a ship bound for Gaul.

Curiously, after reaching Gaul, Patrick made no immediate effort to return home. He became a monk for a number of years at the monastery of Lerins, on an island off the southern coast of France. Later, he continued his religious training and was ordained as a deacon at Auxerre, also in Gaul. By the time he finally returned home for a visit, his parents were dead, and he seems to have found nothing in west England to hold him there. He returned to Auxerre, where he was selected for the mission that made his name immortal in 432 A.D.

Bury establishes that the traditional idea that Patrick brought Christianity to a land that previously knew nothing but idol-worship and the sorcery of Druid priests is very much wide of the mark. There already seem to have been extensive Christian communities in Ireland at the time, particularly in the southeastern part of the country. Christianity had enormous prestige throughout the European world at the time because of its adoption as the ruling faith of the Roman Empire; Patrick's contemporaries of course could not foresee that its western portions would be carved up among various Germanic invaders within a few decades. Patrick was not even the first emissary dispatched by the Roman church to Ireland; a predecessor had gone out a year or two earlier, but died quickly of disease. Bury concludes that Patrick's mission was as much concerned with seeing to the organization of the existing Irish churches as it was with pursuing conversion efforts in the northern and western reaches of the island.

Patrick, however, was haunted by thoughts of the children of the north whose lack of baptism condemned them to eternal damnation under well-established Christian doctrine (notably promulgated and defended by St. Augustine only a few years earlier). He embarked for the region of Dalriada on Ireland's northeast coast, in an area (Down) now part of Ulster. He began his missionary efforts there and carried them forward over the years that followed in a broad band stretching across the country from the valley of the Boyne in the east to Clew Bay in the west. In later years, there were also some efforts in Munster and Leinster.

Bury notes that Patrick faced opposition from the Druid priests and sometimes was in physical danger, but you are left with a sense that his missionary efforts were significantly less perilous than those of the first clerics who undertook the conversion of the Slavs and Balts east of the Elbe half a millenium later. One major king, although personally disinclined to the new religion, readily granted Patrick land upon which to build houses of worship. The lack of self-confidence that afflicted adherents of the traditional religion was most clearly delineated by the fate of Patrick's former master, a chieftain named Miliucc. Hearing that his former slave was coming in an effort to convert him to the new religion, and "seized by a strange alarm lest his former slave should by some irresistible spell constrain him to embrace the new religion against his will," he gathered all his possessions together in a funeral pyre and immolated himself. The sight of the resulting conflagration -- a horrifying result of his own good intentions -- greeted Patrick as he approached from the south, and must have seared his soul forever.

Patrick lived long enough to see his new converts murdered and kidnapped by Christian raiding parties from across the Irish Sea, and Bury suggests that his final years may have been troubled by disllusionment. This book is scholarly, thorough (there are 165 pages of appendices discussing sources and various controversies), and ultimately quite moving. My only objection is that Bury is too sober a historian to tell you where the legend about driving the snakes out of Ireland came from!

History!.......2000-01-06

Bury's presentation and analysis of the facts are history at its best. This is the way history should be done. Although I have not seen Evidence One of rebuttal to Bury, most modern historians all follow lock step the axiom that Patrick started an autonomous Celtic church separate from the universal church. The extensive notes are worth the price of the book!

Readable and interesting, full of stories and humor........1998-10-15

One of the finest scholars of the late Roman world, John Bury died in 1927 leaving a distinguished record of research and writing. Bury's LIFE OF ST. PATRICK was one of the earliest scholarly attempts to separate fact from fiction in Patrick studies. Very quickly following the death of the saint a great body of stories and traditions arose around him. Some of these stories were plainly fabricated; others contained more than a grain of truth. As a scholar of the late Roman world Bury knew the territory very well and tells a compelling and plausible story of the earliest days of the Irish church. While scholarly, the book is readable and interesting, full of wonderful stories and wry humor. In his introduction to the reprint of Bury's classic, one of the greatest contemporary Patrick scholars, Liam de Paor, calls the book "a monument of enlightened scholarship and . . . of permanent value."

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Long ago, deep in the mists of time, one man burning with love for Christ changed the course of Irish history. The story of Saint Patrick of Ireland, as told and illustrated by Zachary Lynch, veers from the usual legends of shamrocks and leprechauns, and recounts the true story of Saint Patrickfrom his kidnapping and enslavement as a young man, to his death as a revered bishop of the Irish people. Taken mainly from his book of Confessions, these tales draw out the deeply Christian aspects of Saint Patricks life. The colorful Celtic illuminations with iconic elements will captivate readers of all ages. For children ages four and up.

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