Saint Patrick
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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, the other patron saints being
Stained-glass window of Saint Patrick from Church of the Assumption, Our Lady's Island, County Wexford, Ireland
The reputed burial place of Saint Patrick in Downpatrick
Late Roman Britain
A stained-glass window in St Patrick's Church, Ballymena, showing him as a shepherd near Slemish mountain
Downpatrick
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Downpatrick is a historic town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the Lecale peninsula, about 21 mi south of Belfast. In the Middle Ages, it was the capital of the Dál Fiatach, the main ruling
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…them. It appeared to each of them that each had the body conveying it to their respective territories. The body of Patrick was afterwards interred at Dun Da Lethglas with great honour and veneration; and during the twelve nights that the religious seniors were watching the body with psalms and hymns, it was not night…
View west along English Street towards Downpatrick Cathedral geograph.org.uk 2448646
Saint Patrick Centre, Downpatrick, February 2010
Inch abbey near Downpatrick geograph.org.uk 740083
Struell Wells, October 2009