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SAINT PATRICK, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR In the V century the Franks, the Germans and other peoples of the North had not yet received the light of the Gospel and God then raised up “His Confessor and Bishop, to preach His glory to the nations” (Oratio). Patrick, called the Apostle of Ireland, was born in Britannia (Great Britain) around 385, from Calpurnius and Conchéssa who is said to be a relative of St. Martin, Bishop of Tours, and during his childhood he was repeatedly enslaved by the barbarians in Ireland where he learned the local language, Gaelic. From the Irish barbarians employed to feed the flock, since then he gave proof of future sanctity: since he filled his soul with faith and the fear and love of God, he diligently got up before dawn to go, despite it snowing, freezing or raining, to offer his prayers to God; and he used to pray to God a hundred times a day and a hundred times at night.