Saint Patrick
5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland · Religious Figures · Lived 400 to 500 · aged 100
Saint Patrick is read about 1,528 times a day, in 70 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 27 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
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Saint Patrick Catholic Church (Junction City, Ohio) - stained glass, Saint Patrick - detail
Depiction of St Patrick
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Little lives of the great saints (1880) (14766829575)
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit - Happy Saint Patrick's Day
Parker Library CCCC MS 279 Synodus I Sancti Patricii p. 3
Patrick's mission to Ireland from the Pope, Kilkenny cathedral
Patrick's well, DublinIn their own words 10
, I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop.
I am not addressing my own people, nor my fellow citizens of the holy Romans, but those who are now become citizens of demons by reason of their evil works.
It would take too long to discuss or argue every single case, or to sift through the whole of the Law for precise witness against such greed.
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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.
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