At 16 years of age, Patrick was kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland.
St. Patrick's job when he was a slave in Ireland was working as a shepherd, tending to his master's sheep. During this time, he turned to prayer and found solace in his faith, which ultimately led to his spiritual transformation.
St. Patrick was taken as a slave by Irish raiders when he was a teenager. He was captured in Roman Britain and taken to Ireland, where he remained in captivity for six years before escaping and returning to his family.
Patrick was about 46 years old when he landed again in Ireland as a missionary in the year 433.
Yes, Patrick was a Catholic.Yes, St. Patrick, patron Saint of Ireland, was catholic. He lived during the early 5th century. by some other guySt. Patrick was catholic. as you know or may not know he was sold as a slave he managed to escape. he also proved himself to being a saint by doing several miracle that inspired man of the Irish to become catholic. he took all the snake out of Ireland there are several churches name st. Patrick in the USA by brr99 :)
St Patrick was sold as a slave into Ireland.
There is no record of any other slaves that might have been sold at the time that St. Patrick was sold.
St. Patrick was never a pope. He was a bishop.
It is thought, but not proven, that St. Patrick died on March 17.
St. Patrick's birth name was Maewyn Succat. St. Patrick was born in Scotland around 375 AD. At age 16, he was captured and sold into slavery in Ireland. He took the name Patrick when he became a Priest.
If you mean St Patrick, he lived in Wales and was captured by Irish pirates and sold in Ireland as a slave.
I've read that ST Patrick was captured by "pirates" and sold as a slave in Ireland.
Patrick has never been 'de-sainted.'
Patrick eventually became a priest, then a bishop and missionary to England and Ireland.
officially, in the 1600s
Patrick was abducted by pirates from the island of Britain and sold to a Druid chieftan in Ireland where he was put to work as a shepherd.
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, at 16 years of age Patrick was carried off into captivity by Irish marauders and was sold as a slave to a chieftain named Milchu in Dalriada, a territory of the present county of Antrim in Ireland, where for six years he tended his master's flocks until he finally escaped back to his home in Britain