He’s one of the MOST FAMOUS Christian saints, commonly associated with shamrocks and credited with ridding Ireland of snakes, but what do we know about Saint Patrick really? This St Patrick documentary from History Calling will go back to the original sources, written by the man himself, to separate fact from fiction and answer the question, what was the real St Patrick like? If you’ve ever wondered was St Patrick Irish, what was the deal with St Patrick and the shamrock, or why Saint Patrick’s day is on 17 March, then this is the video for you.

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READ:

Thomas O’Loughlin, Discovering Saint Patrick (Dartman, Longman and Todd, 2005).
https://amzn.to/2Zog0kH (UK LINK) OR https://amzn.to/376YTaG (US LINK)

Philip Freeman, The World of Saint Patrick (Oxford University Press, 2014).
https://amzn.to/2NzSC0K (UK LINK) OR https://amzn.to/2TFltUX (US LINK)

Patrick (Patricius, Pátraic, Pádraig) (c.420–490?), in the Dictionary of Irish Biography, available at https://dib.cambridge.org/

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