This is Mur @mur2501@social.cleverlibre.org

Ironic, that the day of his DEATH, March 17th, is celebrated with Irish values of levity, parties, and drinking; the opposite of the stoicism St Patrick preached.

His learning of the Irish language while being abroad enabled him to return and disrupt the Irish way of life, contrasting the heroic pagan lifestyle of fighting and feasting and living close to nature, with the more peaceful, but non-sensual life offered by Christianity.

St Patrick’s tale of being enslaved is hotly disputed.

As the son of a deacon, he would have been obliged by Roman law to serve on the town council (curia), but chose instead to abscond from the onerous obligations of this office by fleeing abroad.

He converted wealthy women to be nuns, and is credited for “driving the snakes out of Ireland”.

Ireland, in fact, never had snakes, and this is allegory for the destruction of the Druid faith, which was replaced by Christianity.

He escaped enslavement and went back south to Britain, nearly starved to death, and studied to be a priest.

He then returned to Ireland as a colonizer missionary, and got in trouble for being a bishop for personal gain.

Happy Lá Fhéile Pádraig, or in English, #StPatricksDay.

St Patrick was the agnostic son of a wealthy family, who as a child, was kidnapped and enslaved by Irish pirates.

He was a shepherd for 6 years, and converted to Christianity.