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St. Patrick is known as the "Apostle of Ireland" and legend says he did use the Shamrock as a tool to describe the Trinity.

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Is St. Patrick a myth?

No of course not. Saint Patrick was actually held prisoner for many years for spreading Christ's message and used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagan Druids of lreland. He became bishop of Ireland.


What did Saint Patrick do during his life?

St. Patrick was born in Britain but abducted and taken to Ireland when he was a teen. There he grew closer to God. Then in a dream he was told how to escape and be brought back to Britain. When he returned home he felt called to return to Ireland. He became a priest and then the first bishop of Ireland. He help convert the nation to Catholicism.


Who was the saint that was the Bishop of Ireland?

St. Patrick was the first bishop of Ireland.


Who is the bishop of Ireland?

There are 26 Archdioceses and Dioceses in Ireland each with a bishop or arch-bishop. There are 3 cardinals in Ireland Sean Brady, Cathal Daly and Desmond Connell.


Why did St. Patrick do what he did?

It is said that St. Patrick Explained trinity through a 3 leaf clover. He did not chase away snakes from Ireland because there weren't any snakes there in the first place.St. Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Trinity, and it has been associated with him and the Irish since that time.


Who is the bishop of the diocese of Meath Ireland?

Bishop Michael Smith.


What place was Saint Patrick the bishop of?

Saint Patrick was the bishop of Ireland.


What was St. Patrick appointed to in Ireland?

Patrick was sent to Ireland as a bishop.


Which Saint evangelized an entire nation and was a Bishop?

St. Patrick evangelized all of Ireland and was its first Bishop.


Why celebrate Saint Patrick's Day?

we celebrate saint patricks day because he brought the cathlic religon to Ireland and explaned the religon through using a clover/shamrock we also celebrate it because he is said to have gotten all the snakes out of Ireland aswell... When he was about 16 he was captured from Britain by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. After entering the Church, he returned to Ireland as an ordained bishop in the north and west of the island, but little is known about the places where he worked. By the eighth century he had come to be revered as 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.Patrick with teaching the Irish about the concept of the trinity by showing people the shamrock, a 3-leaved clover, using it to highlight the Christian belief of 'three divine persons in the one God'


What was St. Patrick's profession in Ireland?

Patrick was a Catholic bishop and missionary when he returned to Ireland.


What did Saint Patrick return to Ireland as?

He returned as a bishop to teach the people of Ireland about Christianity.