The story of St. Patrick

[BBAS 64]

Good Day,

Interesting history:

Who Was Saint Patrick and Should Christians Celebrate St. Patrick's Day?

My name is Patrick. I am a sinner, a simple country person, and the least of all believers. I am looked down upon by many. My father was Calpornius. He was a deacon; his father was Potitus, a priest, who lived at Bannavem Taburniae. His home was near there, and that is where I was taken prisoner. I was about sixteen at the time.

In Him,

Bill

 

[Clertole]

Wow, that story is great. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Mockingbird0]

One of my favorite passages from St. Patrick's Confession, the nineteenth chapter. He has escaped from Ireland on a ship after his captivity:

And after three days we came to land. And we wandered for twenty-eight days through a wilderness, and their food ran out, and hunger overcame them. And the next day their captain began to say to me, "What do you say, Christian? Isn't your god great and almighty? Why can't you pray for us, since we're perishing with hunger? For it looks as though we aren't likely ever to find any people." So I openly said to them, "Be turned with all your heart and faith to the Lord our God. For nothing is impossible with him; so that today he will send food into your path, so much that you'll be full. For all things are his." And by God's help, it was so. For a flock of swine appeared on the trail right in front of our eyes. And they slew many of them, and stayed there for two nights well refreshed. And their dogs were revived; for many of them were weakened, and wandered from the trail half dead. And after this they gave great thanks to God, and I was honored in their eyes.