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Saint Patrick

OTTAWA, CANADA - MARCH 17: Matt Kassian #28 of the Ottawa Senators wears a special green warm-up jersey to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, prior to a game against the Winnipeg Jets, during an NHL game at Scotiabank Place, on March 17, 2013 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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About Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius, Irish: Naomh Pádraig), said to have been born Maewyn Succat (Latin: Magonus Succetus), was a Roman Britain-born Christian missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba. When he was about sixteen he was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. He entered the church. He later returned to Ireland as a missionary in the north and west of the island, but little is known about the places where he worked and no link can be made between Patrick and any church. By the eighth century he had become 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.

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