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April May 2014 Issue

Sláinte!: Saint Patrick

By Edythe Preet, Contributor
April / May 2014

March 12, 1994 by Leave a Comment

It is perhaps a love of words that endears the Irish to Saint Patrick.  Son of a West Britain Roman family, at age sixteen Patrick was kidnapped by pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland. Six years later he escaped, fled to the coast, and was hired on as kennel master to a German boat that was transporting Irish wolfhounds to the continent. After many hardships, he at last … [Read more...] about Sláinte!: Saint Patrick

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