Irish travel: Follow the footsteps of St. Patrick around Ireland

great my mom was Irish we plan to visit

I learned, from reading "How the Irish Saved Civilization", that St. Patrick, having been a slave to an Irishman from about age 16 to age 22, made it his lifelong mission to ban slavery from Ireland. He succeeded and is considered to be the first human being known to have worked tirelessly to condemn and erradicate slavery. He was of Roman ancestry and his parents were upper class Roman Christians who had a strong faith.

@angelaOC - there are many many people who were never canonised who are saints in heaven.

Great article above by Patricia... one for me to take note of. I visited St. Patrick’s Grave in Downpatrick last St. Patrick’s Day and saw that big granite rock over his grave. What I didn’t know until that day, and what Patricia could have also mentioned above, is that St. Brigid and St. Columba, Ireland’s first true Apostles after Patrick, are both also buried in St. Patrick’s Grave under that huge rock, thus fulfilling a prophecy that one day all three would rest in peace together.

I'm just worried that he has never been canonised!

thank you St. Patrick

SAINT PATRICK DID BRING GREAT CHANGE TO IRELAND. But in todays Ireland , the young people of Ireland will bring greater CHANGE then ever bearing in mind Ireland's modern history from goverment, economics, education, the sexual abuse of childern by the religious, the church's administration cover up of these sexual abuse crimes of the children etc. The young people of Ireland will change the administration of the church through their actions that the Vatican will not call all the shots as they do today. The religion is not the change but the administration is. The new reformation will begin through the young people for the Vatican has not listen but instead they SILENCE THE TRUTH TO PROTECT THE IMAGE. The change today in counties like Egypt and so on where brought about by the young educated people and you will see it hit the Vatican too from the young Irish and other young people world wide. Has the rock of Saint Peter been erode by the RCC administration over the years? And they though moveable type was bad. What would CHRIST do?