St. Patrick, Bishop of Armagh and Apostle to Ireland

• ABOUT:
  • From Orthodox America:
  • ECOLE Glossary:
  • Catholic Patron Saints Index:
  • 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia: (Read with caution)

  • Fr. Ciaran Needham SPS: St. Patrick's Life: --- St. Patrick Fathers

  • Associated people:
    • St. Sechnall: his nephew

  • Patrick at Glastonbury? (A tradition of the English church, but possibly invented by the monks of Glastonbury, who were notorious for such things.)
    • St. Patrick of Glastonbury: --- Glastonbury Shrine

  • Fiacc: Hymn on the Life of St. Patrick: Very old life in verse. --- SPL
  • St. Patrick: Confessio: The saint's autobiography. --- CCEL
  • St. Secundinus: Hymn on St. Patrick --- St. Patrick Page

• WORKS:
  • Confessio: The saint's autobiography. --- CCEL
  • Letter to Coroticus: A British prince, Coroticus had attacked a group of newly-baptized converts, killing some and enslaving the rest. Bieler translation. --- St. Patrick Page

  • The Lorica (Breastplate), also called The Deer's Cry: a famous Gaelic prayer attributed to St. Patrick; the titles refer to a famous episode in which Patrick escaped miraculously from his enemies because they mistook him for a deer.
    • Kuno Meyer's translation: --- Bartleby
    • Mrs. Alexander's translation, with musical setting by Charles Stanford. --- CyberHymnal
    • The Rune of St. Patrick: A considerably different version of the Lorica, recently popularized by Madeleine l'Engle who quoted it in her novel A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Mangan translation. (Scroll to "Rune of St. Patrick" section.) --- Lyra Celtica