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The Saint Patrick Centre

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The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
The Saint Patrick Centre
Phone:
+44 28 4461 9000

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday9am - 5pm
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the Apostle of Ireland, he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, along with saints Brigit of Kildare and Columba. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran Churches, Anglican Communion, the Old Catholic Church and in the Eastern Orthodox Church as equal-to-the-apostles and Enlightener of Ireland.The dates of Patrick's life cannot be fixed with certainty, but there is broad agreement that he was active as a missionary in Ireland during the second half of the 5th century. Early medieval tradition credits him with being the first bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, and they regard him as the founder of Christianity in Ireland, converting a society practising a form of Celtic polytheism. He has been generally so regarded ever since, despite evidence of some earlier Christian presence in Ireland. According to the Confessio of Patrick, when he was about 16, he was captured by Irish pirates from his home in Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland, looking after animals; he lived there for six years before escaping and returning to his family. After becoming a cleric, he returned to northern and western Ireland. In later life, he served as a bishop, but little is known about the places where he worked. By the seventh century, he had already come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland. Saint Patrick's Day is observed on 17 March, the supposed date of his death. It is celebrated inside and outside Ireland as a religious and cultural holiday. In the dioceses of Ireland, it is both a solemnity and a holy day of obligation; it is also a celebration of Ireland itself.
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