Patrick was a grand mythic figure and a very real historical person: a slave turned missionary, a passionate pilgrim, and a revered religious writer and teacher. Now his story--from his youth in Roman Britain to his emergence from slavery in Ireland--is fully reconstructed and recaptured in the context of 5th century Britain and Ireland, and in light of recent research.
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Patrick was a grand mythic figure and a very real historical person: a slave turned missionary, a passionate pilgrim, and a revered religious writer and teacher. Now his story--from his youth in Roman Britain to his emergence from slavery in Ireland--is fully reconstructed and recaptured in the context of 5th century Britain and Ireland, and in light of recent research.
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