# Saint Patrick

> A teenage slave who escaped his Irish captors, came back decades later as a bishop, and converted an island. The missionary work stuck so thoroughly that his feast day became Ireland's defining holiday — exported worldwide by the diaspora he helped shape.

*5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/saint-patrick

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Born:** 400
- **Died:** 500
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Patrick was sixteen when Irish pirates seized him from his Romano-British home and dragged him into bondage as a herder. After six years he escaped back to Britain, then spent years studying — likely in Gaul — before returning to the island of his captivity as a missionary bishop in the fifth century. He ordained priests, converted thousands, and planted Christianity deep enough that Ireland claimed him as patron saint within two centuries of his death. Later summoned to Britain to face accusations from church authorities, he wrote the Confessio, a personal defense that survives as one of two Latin texts in his hand. Legends grew around him — the shamrock as Trinity, snakes banished, a mountaintop fast — but the verifiable fact is simpler: he turned his captors' land into his mission field, and it held.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 60.3 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 25.8 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.4 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #192

## Topics
#Religious Figures, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Religion, #Ancient History

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165479)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Saint%20Patrick)
- [القديس باتريك](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83)
- [Patriciu d'Irlanda](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriciu_d'Irlanda)
- [Сьвяты Патрык](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8C%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D1%8B_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BA)
- [Патрик](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA)
- [Padrig (sant)](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padrig_(sant))
- [Patrici d'Irlanda](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrici_d'Irlanda)
- [Svatý Patrik](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svat%C3%BD_Patrik)
- [Sant Padrig](https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Padrig)
- [Skt. Patrick](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skt._Patrick)
- [Patrick von Irland](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_von_Irland)
- [Άγιος Πατρίκιος Ιρλανδίας](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%86%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%A0%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%99%CF%81%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B4%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82)
- [Patriko de Irlando](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriko_de_Irlando)
- [Patricio de Irlanda](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricio_de_Irlanda)
- [Patrick](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick)
- [Patrizio Irlandakoa](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrizio_Irlandakoa)
- [سنت پاتریک](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9)
- [Patrick (pyhimys)](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_(pyhimys))
- [Sankta Pátrikur](https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankta_P%C3%A1trikur)
- [Patrick d'Irlande](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_d'Irlande)
- [Naomh Pádraig](https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomh_P%C3%A1draig)
- [Naomh Pàdraig](https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomh_P%C3%A0draig)
- [Patricio de Irlanda](https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricio_de_Irlanda)
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick)
- [Wikiquote](https://eo.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sankta_Patriko)
- [Wikiquote](https://li.wikiquote.org/wiki/Z%C3%A8ntj-Petrik)
- [Sint Patrick](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Patrick)
- [القديس باتريك](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83)

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