St. Patrick on Life

But it is dubious if St. Patrick had such snarky savages to convert as Hans Fiene illustrated in Lutheran Satire.

 

Charles Madigan on St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick on Understanding

Myth Busting Blind Date

Sinead O'Connor

If it were true, this must have been an unusual blind date for Medusa as it was an occasion when her companion did not get stoned.  After her encounter with St. Paddy, she bears a striking resemblance to Sinead O'Connor.

For a less fanciful account of St. Patrick's life, here's a tongue-in-cheek animated hagiography.

h/t: Dan Piraro

St. Patrick on Nature

Some Confessions of St. Patrick

But after I reached Ireland I used to pasture the flock each day and I used to pray many times a day. 

More and more did the love of God, 

and my fear of him and faith increase, and my spirit was moved

so that in a day [I said] from one up to a hundred prayers, 

and in the night a like number; 

besides I used to stay out in the forests and on the mountain

and I would wake up before daylight to pray in the snow, in icy coldness, in rain,

and I used to feel neither ill nor any slothfulness, 

because, as I now see, 

the Spirit was burning in me at that time.

[from the Confessions of St. Patrick]

St. Patrick on Faith