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<\/a><\/p>\nWhat do you think of when you think of St Patrick’s day? \u00a0Shamrocks? \u00a0Green beer? Christianity?<\/p>\n
Saint Patrick was “The Apostle of Ireland,” but he was NOT Irish! \u00a0<\/p>\n
His original birth name was\u00a0Maewyn Succat and h<\/strong>e grew up in Roman Britain. \u00a0\u00a0 At the age of 16 he was captured by Irish pirates. He was then transported to Ireland where he was sold as a slave, and forced to care for sheep for the next 6 years.<\/p>\n It was sometime during this 6 year period that Saint Patrick became a Christian. \u00a0His father had been a Christian and a deacon in the church, but Patrick, as a youth, had not been interested. \u00a0While tending sheep as a slave, however, he was often hungry. \u00a0Turning to God, he prayed often and toward the end of his 6th year had a dream where he was told a ship was waiting for him. \u00a0He walked to the east coast of Ireland, about 200 miles away, and found a ship bound for Britain and convinced the captain to take him aboard. \u00a0That is how, after 6 years, he was finally able to escape.<\/p>\n After landing in Britain, he and some others had been wandering in wilderness for close to a month. \u00a0Without food they were essentially starving. \u00a0St Patrick prayed for food and soon came upon a wild boar. Saved from death and able to continue his trek, \u00a0St Patrick was able, eventually, to reach his home and family.<\/p>\n Once he was back home, he studied and became a cleric. \u00a0Then another vision directed him back to Ireland.<\/p>\n Once back in Ireland, St Patrick began to preach. \u00a0Not welcomed on the mainland, he started on surrounding islands. \u00a0During this time St Patrick wrote\u201cEvery day there is the chance that I will be killed, or surrounded, or taken into slavery.\u201d \u00a0People began to be converted to Christ and with time St Patrick was able to come to the mainland. \u00a0It is felt his congregation was about 100,000 people eventually. \u00a0He baptized 1000s and helped to form over 300 churches.<\/p>\n It is believed that Saint Patrick lived during the 5th century and that he died on March 17, 461. \u00a0Now, centuries later, we celebrate the date of his death. So, to everyone of any descent, Irish or not, I wish you a \u00a0very happy St Patrick’s Day!<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0<\/p>\n Don’t forget to wear green!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 What do you think of when you think of St Patrick’s day? \u00a0Shamrocks? \u00a0Green beer? Christianity? Saint Patrick was “The Apostle of Ireland,” but he was NOT Irish! \u00a0 His original birth name was\u00a0Maewyn Succat and he grew up in Roman Britain. \u00a0\u00a0 At the age of 16 he was captured by Irish pirates. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WySj-h4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}