Who was St. Patrick, and why we celebrate his life

Who was St. Patrick, and why we celebrate his life St. Patrick's Day is a day of festivity and celebration, but few people know the true story of Saint Patrick, and that he really is. Traditionally, this is a patron of the Catholic religion, because the detainee who had up to that moment of solitude and his great faith, and the number of people were to know God through him. And 'the legend that he heard, angels, and that helped him in his decisions. All in all, he is known as the Patron Saint of luck and a blessing for Catholics in this period up to 21st Century. Saint Patrick was a real person bo in the period around 400 AD in Roman Britain, as the British Isles were still under the dominion of the Romans. E 'bo with the name Maewyn. His name was not changed until it is in the monastery. His father was a soldier of the army, and Patrick also reports him to a deacon, civil servants and a city council, who was a son of a Romano-British priest. The family was Christian, but they were not very religious, some historians say Patrick was agnostic in his childhood. After his most famous work, the confession, Patrick was captured along with many others, when his village was attacked and he was in Ireland as a slave. Patrick was under the authority of a druid high priest and his family, where he leaed the native Celtic language, and then to communicate, and assistance to convert. After 8 years in captivity, he escaped at the age of twenty-two, and the legend that an angel told him to spend twelve years in a monastery near Paris, France, where he adopted the name Patrick. It was during this period of captivity that Patrick found God and developed the habit of praying throughout the day to strengthen and further God 'in the confession that he would often pray for up to 100 times a day. One night, while in the monastery, he said he had heard many voices calling him to Ireland, for the remaining slaves. At that time was somewhere in the middle of the thirties and so he answered the call. He was one of the first Christian missionaries in Ireland. He was confident in the Lord, and has traveled far and wide, baptizing and with tireless zeal. Indeed, Patrick was successful conversion to Christianity in Ireland. It is also important that also converts into royal families. For 20 years he has traveled throughout Ireland, establishing monasteries, schools and churches, which in its conversions. He died on 17 March. You can see what was originally a Catholic holy day, but today St. Patrick's Day was more of a secular holiday. Or, better said, "is Irish Day '. Speculation that this feast is so popular, that could be next spring, which occurs within a few days.