St. Patrick was not Irish

This is the time of the year when I remind everyone that Saint Patrick
was not Irish, he was Roman.



Two Latin letters survive which are generally accepted to have been
written by Patrick. These are the Declaration (Latin: Confessio) and
the Letter to the soldiers of Coroticus (Latin: Epistola). The
Declaration is the more important of the two. In it Patrick gives a
short account of his life and his mission. His parents were
Calphurnius and Conchessa. The former belonged to a Roman family of
high rank and held the office of decurio in Gaul or Britain. Conchessa
was a near relative of the great patron of Gaul, St Martin of Tours.
In or about his sixteenth year, Patrick was carried into captivity by
marauders and was sold as a slave to an Irish chieftan named Milchu in
Dalriada, an area in present-day county Antrim.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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On 3/2/2012 6:02 AM, wrote:
This is the time of the year when I remind everyone that Saint Patrick
was not Irish, he was Roman.



Two Latin letters survive which are generally accepted to have been
written by Patrick. These are the Declaration (Latin: Confessio) and
the Letter to the soldiers of Coroticus (Latin: Epistola). The
Declaration is the more important of the two. In it Patrick gives a
short account of his life and his mission. His parents were
Calphurnius and Conchessa. The former belonged to a Roman family of
high rank and held the office of decurio in Gaul or Britain. Conchessa
was a near relative of the great patron of Gaul, St Martin of Tours.
In or about his sixteenth year, Patrick was carried into captivity by
marauders and was sold as a slave to an Irish chieftan named Milchu in
Dalriada, an area in present-day county Antrim.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Dal Riada was the northern kingdom in Ireland roughly congruent with
today's Ulster. It was expansionist and expanded into what is now the
western islands of Scotland, bringing the Scots to Scotland from
Ireland. Eventually Ulster and the Scottish plantation of Dal Riada in
Scotland separated. The Scottish part became Scotland which united with
the Picts under Kenneth McAlpin, the first king of the Scots and Picts.
Later the Angles (English/Lowland Scots speaking people) joined the
highlanders (Scots and Picts) to form what we now know as Scotland.