Modern pagans who wish to reconstruct the ancient Celtic traditions and thanks to St. Patrick have very little to work with as far as information.
Saint Patrick upset the Pagan Druids when he converted the Pagan Irish to Christianity. The Druids were upset that Saint Patrick was replacing their religion with Christianity in an effort to wipe out their religion.
Saint Patrick was largely responsible for converting pagan Ireland to Christianity.
Patrick was the one mostly responsible for the conversion of that country to Christianity.
He is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland. Ireland became a Christian country and has a long history of Christianity since then and many Irish people have helped bring Christianity to other parts of the world.
Saint Patrick is credited with banishing snakes from Ireland. However, scientists have found no fossil evidence that snakes ever lived in that country. The snakes represent the pagan gods Patrick banished when he converted the Irish to Christianity.
Patrick is most famous for something he did not do - drive the snakes from Ireland. Snakes have NEVER existed in that country. The snakes are, perhaps, symbolic for the pagan gods of the Druids that he drove out by converting the population to Christianity.
For something he actually did, he is known for converting the pagan Druids of Ireland to Christianity. That snake banishing thing is just a myth.
Patrick was sent to Ireland to missionize and spread Christianity. Until his arrivial the Irish followed pagan beliefs.
Scientists have determined that snakes have never lived in Ireland. The snakes are symbolic of the pagan Druid gods that Patrick drove out of Ireland by converting the Irish to Catholicism.
Scientists have found no fossil evidence that snakes ever lived in Ireland so Saint Patrick would have had no interest in the animals. Snakes were symbolic of the pagan gods that Patrick expelled from Ireland by converting Ireland to Christianity.
He converted the pagan Druids of Ireland to Catholicism.
It is just a legend as scientist can find no evidence that snakes ever lived in that country. The snakes are just symbolic for the Druid pagan gods that Patrick drove out by converting the country to Christianity. Patrick is better known for something he actually did - converting many pagans to Christianity where others had failed to do so.