WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT SAINT PATRICK? The real St Patrick | St Patrick documentary | History Calling

He’s one of the MOST FAMOUS Christian saints, commonly associated with shamrocks and credited with ridding Ireland of snakes, but what do we know about Saint Patrick really? This St Patrick documentary from History Calling will go back to the original sources, written by the man himself, to separate fact from fiction and answer the question, what was the real St Patrick like? If you’ve ever wondered was St Patrick Irish, what was the deal with St Patrick and the shamrock, or why Saint Patrick’s day is on 17 March, then this video, which is a history of Ireland documentary, is for you. BUY MY BOOK (Find Your Irish Ancestors Online): https://amzn.to/3Z2ChnG Website (with 2 FREE DOWNLOADS): https://www.historycallingofficial.com/ Patreon:   / historycalling   Amazon storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/historyca... Instagram:   / historycalling   YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: IRISH HISTORY PLAYLIST    • Irish history   READ: Thomas O’Loughlin, Discovering Saint Patrick (Dartman, Longman and Todd, 2005). https://amzn.to/376YTaG Philip Freeman, The World of Saint Patrick (Oxford University Press, 2014). https://amzn.to/2TFltUX Patrick (Patricius, Pátraic, Pádraig) (c.420–490?), in the Dictionary of Irish Biography, available at https://dib.cambridge.org/ For Creative Commons licenses used see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ NB: Links above may be affiliate links. This means that if you choose to make a purchase through one of these links, I earn a small commission. It does not affect the price you pay.