Hey Dr Taylor Marshall here happy feast day of St. Patrick I'm going to share with you today

St. Patrick in nine quick easy points I happen to be half Irish both of my grandmother's Irish my maternal grandmother is green Irish she's Catholic or was raised Catholic and my

Paternal Grandmother is orange Irish. She was raised Protestant, but they're both from the island of Ireland and that makes me half Irish and I'm Catholic so it all works out.

So St. Patrick in nine points.

First of all, Patrick himself was not Irish.

He was actually a Roman Britain, and his name Patricius is Roman, and in Latin it means patrician or noble. In fact Santa Guessna

hippo his father that's the husband of St. Monica was also named patricius so it's a

common name appearing all the way up in Britain and all the way down south in

North Africa.

Number two, St. Patrick wrote an autobiography, The Story of His Life, it's pretty short. I recommend you looking it up and reading it. It's called the confession or in Latin, Confessio.

Number three, St. Patrick was the son of a deacon and the grandson of a priest and he himself writes in his

confessio, my father was Calpornius. He was a deacon. His father was Potitus, a priest who lived in Bonavum, Tabernier.

Number four, at age 16, so when teenagers are getting their driver's license.

Not so with Patrick, he was abducted by Irish pirates

and he was taken to Ireland to serve as a slave

until his 22nd year.

So for six years, he toiled as a slave shepherd in Ireland.

And during this time he cultivated his faith in the Christian God. He had been

catechized by his deacon father, perhaps even by his priest, grandfather, and he learned about Jesus Christ, he learned about the Trinity, and he spoke of God in this way, quote,

this is the one we acknowledge and adore one God in a Trinity of the sacred name.

So from a young age, he believed in the Trinity.

He was a Catholic. At age 5.5 at age 22 he heard

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