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“I am Patrick, a sinner, the most unschooled and least of all the faithful, and utterly despised by many,” was the first sentence St. Patrick penned of his Confession—the autobiography of his life and missionary journeys. Over the past centuries, various writers have quoted from St. Patrick’s Confession, finding encouragement in its many lessons of faith and humility. The Confession St. Patrick...

The Confession of St. Patrick I PATRICK,a a sinner, the rudest and the least of all the faithful, and an object of the greatest contempt to many, am the son of Calpornius, a deacon, the son of Potitus, heretofore a presbyter,b who* lived in Bannavan, a village of Tabernia,c in the neighbourhood of which he had a small farm; and here I was taken captive. I was then nearly sixteen years old; I was ignorant of the true God, and was
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