St. Patrick The Confession

Like many of his fellow Saints, St. Patrick's story didn't start out a happy one. St. Patrick was born in Roman Britain in the year 387 AD. Around the age of fourteen he was captured by Irish pirates during a raid and taken to Ireland as a slave to herd and tend the sheep. While Ireland was mainly Druids and pagans, St. Patrick turned to God and Catholicism instead. In his memoir, The Confession he wrote:

Patrick escaped his captivity at the age of twenty after he had a vision from God where he was told to flee Ireland by going to the coast. He found sailors who took him back to Britain where he was reunited with his family. A few years later St. Patrick had another vision, which he described:

After the vision, he became a priest and then