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History is my best subject.
Ok so here it is:
Patrick was born in Wales in about 387, he was captured by a man called Niall Naoi nGiallach who took him to Ireland and sold him to a farmer in Antrim. He tended sheep on a hill, he wasn't looked after very well and prayed every night for God to save him. One night God told him to go to Port Laraige, where there would be a ship waiting for him. He managed to get on the ship after trying to convince the captain, and went to France. Eventually he got back to Wales but one night he heard a voice saying he had to go back to Ireland to tell the Irish pagans about Jesus, he decided to become a priest, he trained in France and went back to Ireland in around 431 with other priests, they got off the boat and headed inland and setup camp in Slane.
They lit a fire, not knowing they were breaking the law. Normally, the King would light the first fire and then everybody would light theirs but when everyone saw Patrick's fire they thought it was the Kings and lit their fires, the King was furious, he arrested Patrick and the other priests but when he saw that only Patrick could put the fire out because God was on his side he let him go and listened to what he had to say.
He picked a shamrock and started to explain about the Blessed Trinity, and using the shamrock he explained how there was only one God (one seed used to grow the shamrock), but their was three parts to him basically, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit (the three leaves on the shamrock). People then started to follow him. He spend sixty years in Ireland preaching about God and died on the 17th of March 493.
That's basically it
He did some other stuff too but this is mainly what he is known for.
