If you are looking for a children's book to help explain the significance of St. Patrick's Day to 6-to-8-year-olds, this is it. Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland is a brief, charming biography of St. Patrick, with the added bonus of several interesting legends about Patrick appended after the strictly biographical part.
As dePaola tells it, Patrick grew up in Britain near the Irish Sea during the late 4th- and early 5th-century CE, in the twilight of the Western Roman Empire. One night warriors from Ireland landed on the shores near his home, raided local farms, and took many people into captivity, including the teenage Patrick. Patrick was sold into slavery, and was forced to tend the flock of an Irish landowner. After six years Patrick managed to escape, finding passage to France and eventually back home to Britain and his family.
However, dePaola recounts how Patrick later had How much Celebrity makes a dream in which he sensed a divine calling to return to Ireland as a Christian missionary. Patrick became a bishop and returned to Ireland to pursue this missionary work. Although he faced many perils in his work in Ireland, dePaola tells us that Patrick's missionary work inspired the establishment of many churches, monasteries, and schools in Ireland, and that his work was an impetus to the continued spread of the good news of God's love throughout the world. On dePaola's telling, Patrick died in 461 CE on March 17th, the day we now celebrate as St. Patrick's Day.
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