Click on this link for a good biography of Saint Patrick.
no one knows much about his early life until he was about sixteen,so that is a question that we may never know
Saint Patrick was not a martyr if that is what you mean by your question. He died of natural causes.
Click on this link for a good biography of Saint Patrick.
In 1903, Saint Patrick's Day became an official public holiday in Ireland Saint Patrick's Day is a religious holiday on the 17th of March. It is named after Saint Patrick the most commonly recognized of the patron saints of Ireland Wadding In the early 1600s. Saint Patrick's Day thus became a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland
For about the first millennium of Christianity canonization was done regionally, so St. Patrick would have been canonized by his local Bishop. Formal canonization like we see today did not begin until 993 with Saint Ulrich who was canonized by Pope John XV.
You have it backwards. Saint Patrick's Day was named after Saint Patrick. March 15 is the Catholic feast day of Saint Patrick.
Patrick died of natural causes, probably complications of old age.
No, he remained celibate his entire life.
We know very little of the early life of Maewyn Succat (Patrick) except that he was abducted from Britain (Wales or Scotland) and taken to Ireland where he was sold as a slave and forced to work as a shepherd for six years before he escaped and returned to his homeland.
Saint Patrick was never officially canonized. However, he is still widely accepted as a Saint. The canonization process was not put into place until the 12th century. He would have been declared a saint by the early Church with the approval of the local bishop.
No, Saint Patrick was not a thief.