st. patrick's day - who is st. patrick?

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   Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most widely recognized patron saint of Ireland. When he was about 16, he was abducted  from Britain by Irish raiders and taken  to Ireland as a slave, where he spent  six years of his live  before running from that captivity and returning to his family. After joining the Church, he returned to Ireland as an ordained bishop in the north and west of the island,. By the seventh century, he had come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland.

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