Saint Patrick.
Perhaps one of the most Internationally well known Saints around the world from the U.S. to Ireland, but he is also the patron saint of Nigeria. Things are done in style and taste in the United States in relation to St. Patrick's day, by the large and long standing Irish community.
The 17th March will be marked by parades, dances and music and drink, but all of this actually has very little to do with the man himself and he probably would not approve of some of it.
We have a traditional story, filled with shamrocks and many other legends of the man. But much of what we claim to now about him is not true.
What is known about him, is that he was a born-again Christian, who first arrived in Ireland as a slave from south west England, at the age of about sixteen years old.
1 Corinthians 15:8-10, 1 Timothy 1:15-16.
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