St. Patrick was born in Scotland, Captures as a slave and later escaped and went to in Ireland. Saint Patrick was ordained as a deacon, then priest and later, a bishop. Pope Celestine sent him to Ireland to preach the gospel. He traveled many places and many are named after Saint Patrick.

Saint Patrick is best known for having driven the snakes from Ireland. Driving the snakes from Ireland was symbolic of ending the pagan practices of the Druids at Tara. Saint Patrick converted the warrior chiefs and princes, baptized them and their subjects in the Holy Wells which still bear tSaint Patrick's name.

St. Patrick died on 17 March in A.D. 493 and was buried in the same grave as St. Bridget and St. Columba, at Downpatrick, County Down. Saint Patrick's jawbone was kept in a silver shrine and used in a religious ceremony for such occasions as childbirth, epileptic fits and to protect against the evil eye.