Rev. Richard Lyons Rev. Richard Lyons

St. Patrick

This past week we celebrated the feast of St. Patrick. St. Patrick is both the patron saint of Ireland and also the patron saint of our own diocese. So this feast is of special importance for our local church, so much so that it actually gets promoted for us to a solemnity! (Hence we can be dispensed from our Lenten fasts) With that in mind, though, who actually is St. Patrick? What do we know about him?

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