Did you know he was Welsh and not Irish?
This day, March 17th is the date St. Patrick died in 461AD. At sixteen, he was kidnapped to Ireland and made a slave on a pig farm for six years, until he escaped back to England. In his early forties he returned to Ireland, confronted the Druids, converted Chieftains, and used the three-leaf clover to explain the Trinity. Founding 300 churches and baptizing 120,000 converts, he wrote in his Confessions:
“Patrick the sinner, an unlearned man to be sure…. None should ever say that it was my ignorance that accomplished any small thing… it was the gift of God.”
–Bill Federer, “American Minute”