St. Patrick
The boy who was kidnapped by pirates and became a saint.
When Patrick was 16, pirates raided his family's home in Britain and dragged him across the sea to Ireland, where he was sold as a slave. For six years he worked as a shepherd on cold hillsides, alone, with no way to get home. He started praying. A lot. He wrote later that he would pray a hundred times a day, and almost as many times at night.
One night Patrick heard a voice in a dream: Your ship is ready. He ran more than 200 miles to the coast and found a ship just about to leave. He was free.
Then comes the part that gets me every time. After everything he survived, Patrick had another dream. He heard the Irish people calling him back. So he went. To the place where he'd been a slave. He spent the rest of his life there, baptizing thousands and building churches. He didn't hold a grudge. He loved them.
The March envelope
March's letter came from St. Patrick himself, sharing his story with the little ones on the list. It rode along with his hand-drawn prayer card, a saint sticker, and the March zine.
- A hand-drawn letter from St. Patrick
- A collectible prayer card, pencil art on the front, a hand-lettered prayer on the back
- A St. Patrick sticker
- An 8-page hand-illustrated zine
Fun facts
- Patrick used the three-leaf shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity
- His feast day is March 17, the day he died, not the day he was born
- He wasn't Irish. He was born in Roman Britain.
- Legend says he drove all the snakes out of Ireland. Scientists say there were never snakes there to begin with. Patrick knows.
Feast day: March 17 · Patron of Ireland
A different saint writes to your little one every month. Letters from Heaven mails a hand-illustrated letter, prayer card, sticker, and zine, straight to your mailbox.
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