This is Angela Odell and you are listening to real cool history for kids.

A podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical world view perspective.

Welcome to an adventure.

Welcome to episode 98 of real cool history for kids.

This episode is from Montgomery DeVore and Joseph Chastain, who wanted to hear the story of

Saint Patrick. This is one of my absolute favorite stories from the Middle Ages, so I'm super

excited to be able to share with you. For this episode, I'm going to do something a little

unusual. I'm going to use some of the content from a chapter from one of my own history books.

In the world story volume two, which is the history of the Middle Ages, I wrote an entire

chapter about Saint Patrick and the Irish Christian Church of that time period. So it's from

that chapter, I'm going to take a lot of this story. Before we begin our story, if you can,

take a moment to grab your globe or world map. We are going to be traveling across the Atlantic ocean.

Find England. It might be called the United Kingdom on your globe and then look to the left and

find a tiny little island nation that is Ireland and that has had a huge impact on the world.

Ireland is known as the Green Isle and it has had a tumultuous history to say the least.

The ancient Celts were the first known settlers of Ireland. The Celts originally came from

Central Europe and spread out all across the continent. They first came to Ireland just a few

hundred years before Jesus was born. Well Ireland never came under the Roman Empire's control like

most of Europe did and its isolation from the rest of Europe also meant that it took longer

for Christianity to reach its shores. Isolation means to be away from or separate from other people

or in this case other nations. It was in the fifth century after Christ that Christianity in Ireland

began to grow stronger thanks in part to the hard work and dedication of one man, a man we know

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