Saint Patrick was a Christian missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and
Columba.
Patrick was born in Roman Britain. When he was about sixteen he was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave
to
Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. He entered the church, as his
father
and grandfather had before him, becoming a deacon and a bishop. He later returned to Ireland as a missionary,
working
in the north and west of the island, but little is known about the places where he actually worked and no link can
be
made with Patrick and any church. By the eighth century he had become the patron saint of Ireland. The Irish
monastery
system evolved after the time of Patrick and the Irish church did not develop the diocesan model that Patrick and
the
other early missionaries had tried to establish
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