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Patrick was abducted from his home in Scotland or Wales when he was still a boy and forced to serve a Druid (pagan) master. After a few years he was able to escape and return home. He received a message from God to convert, become a priest, and return to Ireland to try and convert the pagans to Christianity. After studies for the priesthood in Europe he did return to Ireland as a Catholic bishop where he drove paganism (not snakes) out of the country. He was named a saint by popular acclaim. No official system existed at the time for naming saints. That was not instituted until the 12th century.

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