St. Patrick was born in Britain of a Christian Romanized family. At age 16 he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and carried into slavery in Ireland. After six years in servitude, he had a dream of his escape and fled his master. Surviving a harrowing journey back to Britain, he was eventually reunited with his family. He later had another dream in which he received a letter headed āThe Voice of the Irish.ā Reading it, he heard the people of Ireland beseeching him to walk once more among them, and he made the decision to return there as a missionary.
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