The tradition of driving snakes out of Ireland may be an allegory for Saint Patrick refuting and winning back the adherents of the Pelagian heresy (the false teaching that a person may be saved through the positive power of human nature without grace). However, post-glacial Ireland never had snakes.
Saint Patrick explains: I heard one of them shout aloud at me: “Come quickly – those men are calling you!” I turned back right away, and they began to say to me: “Come – we’ll trust you. Patrick was asked “suck the breasts” of the sailors who offered him a ride to Britain.At age 22, he heard the voice of God telling him to escape slavery and run to the ocean’s port…200 miles away.Patrick speaks of God in this way: “This is the one we acknowledge and adore – one God in a trinity of the sacred name.” He served as a slave shepherd and during his time in the fields, he returned to the Christian God that he had learned about as a child. At age 16, Saint Patrick was abducted by Irish pirates and taken to Ireland to serve as a slave for 6 years, until his 22nd year.His father was Potitus, a priest, who lived at Bannavem Taburniae ( Confessio, 1). Saint Patrick was the son of a deacon and the grandson of a priest, as he himself testifies: “My father was Calpornius.
Saint Patrick wrote an autobiography titled Confessio or “Confession.”.
His Latin name Patricius is Roman and in Latin it means “Patrician” or “noble.” Saint Augustine of Hippo’s father (Saint Monica’s husband) was also named Patricius. Here are 9 facts (including the Two Patrick Theory) about Saint Patrick of Ireland:
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