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St Patrick is perhaps the most venerated saint of the modern age, whose feast day is marked each year by massive celebrations across the world, from Dublin to New York and Sydney to Rio de Janeiro. Yet, in spite of his popularity, very little is known of his life, which is clouded by myth and uncertainty. The facts that are known - that he was born in the late fourth century in Roman Britain, was captured by Irish raiders at the age of 16 and sold into slavery, escaped six years later to Britain where he became a priest and later a bishop before returning to Ireland to proselytise - give only a vague sense of the man behind the legends. J.B. Bury's classic biography, which remains the definitive work on the saint, dispels many of the myths and paints a vivid and exacting portrait of the world around St Patrick, revealing the influences and inspirations that transformed him from a minor fifth century missionary into the patron saint of Ireland and a source of living inspiration for countless people - the Irish above all - some 1,500 years after his death.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
CHAPTER I On the Diffusion of Christianity Beyond the Roman Empire
CHAPTER II The Captivity and Escape of Patrick
1 Parentage and Capture
2 Capture and Escape
CHAPTER III In Gaul and Britain
1 At Lerins
2 At Home in Britain
3 At Auxerre
4 Palladius in Ireland (A.D. 431-2)
5 Consecration of Patrick (A.D. 432)
CHAPTER IV The Political and Social Condition of Ireland
CHAPTER V In the Island-Plain, In Dalaradia
CHAPTER VI In Meath
1 King Loigarie's Policy
2 Legend of Patrick's Contest with the Druids
3 Loigarie's Code
4 Ecclesiastical Foundations in Meath
CHAPTER VII In Connaught
CHAPTER VIII Foundation of Armagh and Ecclesiastical Foundation
1 Visit to Rome (circa A.D. 441-3)
2 Foundation of Armagh (A.D. 444)
3 In South Ireland
4 Church Discipline
5 Ecclesiastical Organisation
CHAPTER IX Writings of Patrick and his Death
1 The Denunciation of Coroticus
2 The Confession
3 Patrick's Death and Burial (A.D. 461)
CHAPTER X Patrick's Place in History
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