- St. Patrick Irish Blessing Traveller -
St. Patrick (385 - Saul County Down, Northern Ireland, March 17 461) was a bishop, a Christian missionary in Britain.
Along with St. Columba of Iona and Saint Bridget of Ireland is the patron saint of Ireland is also the patron saint of Nigeria, Montserrat, New York, Boston and engineers.
Born with the name of Maewyin Succat, then chose the Latin name of Patrick. He was the son of Calphurnius Conchessa and belonging to a noble Roman family.
is celebrated by the whole Irish community in the world March 17, the date of his death.
Biography
kidnapped when he was 16 years Irish pirates, it was sold as a slave to the king of North Dal Riada, in today's Northern Ireland. There he learned the Gaelic language and Celtic religion. After six years he fled from the court of the king.
he boarded a ship sailing with the permission of the captain, and after three days at sea landed on a desert coast of Gaul, was the spring of 407, the crew and he walked for 28 days during which the stocks ended, Then the men who were with him asked him to pray to his God for them all the young idea, and after a while appeared a group of pigs, with which they feed him.
Here the biographers do not tell how he left her and went to Gaul to Britain, returned to family Patrick dreamed that Irish people called him, he interpreted this as a vocation to the apostolate among those populations.
He returned to the mainland at the holy Bishop Germanus of Auxerre, to continue his studies, after which he was ordained a deacon, his ambition was to travel to Ireland but his superiors were not convinced of its quality because they are not caught.
In 431 Pope Celestine I sent in Ireland, Bishop St. Palladius, with the task of organizing a diocese for those already converted to Christianity.
Patrick meanwhile completed his studies, he retired for a period in the famous monastery of Lerins in front of Provence, to assimilate with all her will, the monastic life, convinced that with this charisma could establish the Church among the Celtic peoples of Ireland and Scots.
With the same purpose, he went to Italy in the islands in front of Tuscany to visit the monastic community here in places and figure out what method was used by monks to convert the inhabitants of the islands.
is not certain that he met the Pope in Rome, according to recent studies, however, Patrick was consecrated bishop and appointed successor of Palladio around 440, yet the ancient texts say in 432, in which case Palladio first bishop of Ireland would work one year, but it's more likely that Palladio has arrived on the island around 432 and confused by reporters with Patrick, because the surname of Palladio or his middle name, was just Patrick.
The method of evangelization was appropriate and effective, the Irish were grouped in a large number of small tribes that formed the Tuatha sovereign states, so you need the favor of the king of each territory, to be allowed to preach and security in travel missionaries. To this end, Patrick did a lot of gifts to the people of the royal family and even the dignitaries who attended it. The money was largely his own, which drew from the sale of his father's estates he had inherited, not asking for anything to his followers converted to avoid accusations of greed.
According to the Annals of Ulster in 444, Patrick established his headquarters at Armagh in the county that now bears his name, spreading the Gospel by the North and Northwest of Ireland, from 439 in the rest of the island had the help of three other bishops continent, Saints Secundus, Help and Isernia, whose coming is not so clear whether Patrick or independently to help him and then joined together in mutual cooperation.
The indefatigable apostle concluded his life in 461 Down in Ulster, which will then take the name of Downpatrick.
two letters attributed to him in Latin: Confessio (or "Declaration" which gives a brief account of his life and his mission) and Epistula a letter addressed Coroticus the soldiers.
Stories about St. Patrick
According to Irish tradition, in Ireland there would be no snakes since St. Patrick drove them into the sea.
This legend is linked to that of Irish sacred mountain, Croagh Patrick, on which the saint had spent forty days, throwing the end of a bell from the top of the mountain in the current Clew Bay to drive out the snakes and the impurities, forming the islands that distinguish it.
the legend of the famous well of St. Patrick, the bottomless pit from which you opened the heavenly gates of Purgatory.
Note the presence of the legendary figure of St. Patrick's also in the national Irish clover shamrock. With a shamrock, it is said, St. Patrick would have explained to the Christian concept of the Trinity Irish, looking through the small leaves of the clover bound to a single stem.
