The Real Saint Patrick

Our special DVD is 'The True Historical Patrick'. Patrick the Evangelist, who brought the true Gospel of Christ to the Irish, is an historical figure that needs to be heard in his own reverberating words and feelings. The heartbeat and the soul of Patrick was the Gospel in Christ Jesus. The facts presented in this DVD will no doubt be a revelation to many. Patrick' message of God's grace and his legacy are all Scriptural and are a deep encouragement in our time. Please make this DVD known to others if at all possible to link to it or have it have it placed on an Internet Website or Blog.

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Ireland has a very distinctive history. It was an island untouched by the Roman legions, and Patrick, the Evangelist, brought to it the Gospel of grace. Patrick was himself descended from a family that had been, for two generations at least, in Christ Jesus. His father, he tells us was "the deacon Calpurnius, son of the late Potitus, a presbyter, of the settlement of Bannaven Taburniae."[1] These facts are recorded in Patrick's own testimony of faith. This authentic document is preserved in five manuscripts: one in the Book of Armagh of the seventh century, the second in the Cotton Library of the tenth century, a third in the French monastery of St. Vedastus, and two more in the Cathedral Library of Salisbury. This authenticated document is the main source of both the person and the mission of Patrick, and also his clear statement of the Gospel of grace.

Patrick was born in the year 373[2] in a town on the River Clyde in Roman Britain, now a part of Scotland. When he was sixteen years old, Patrick was captured by a band of pirates who sold him to a chieftain in what is now county Antrim in Northern Ireland. For six years he tended flocks. In his testimony he tells us, "I was taken captive before I knew what I should desire and what I should shun."[3] It was during the time of his captivity that he turned from his careless ways and came to a saving knowledge of Christ Jesus. He was convicted that he was a sinner. In his own words,
"before I was humbled I was like a stone lying in deep mire, and He that is mighty came and in His mercy raised me up and, indeed, lifted me high up and placed me on top of the wall. And from there I ought to shout out in gratitude to the Lord for His great favours in this world and for ever, that the mind of man cannot measure."[4]
Patrick, like so many of the godly men of history, found God's favor in the riches of the grace of Christ. This was the theme echoing throughout the testimony of Patrick, in his own words "I am greatly God's debtor, because he granted me so much grace."[5] He then grew in the grace of God. Having believed on "the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth," [6] he directly received "of his fullness...grace for grace."[7] In his own words,
"More and more did the love of God, and my fear of Him and faith increase, and my spirit was moved so that in a day [I said] from one up to a hundred prayers, and in the night a like number; besides I used to stay out in the forests and on the mountain and I would wake up before daylight to pray in the snow, in icy coldness, in rain, and I used to feel neither ill nor any slothfulness, because, as I now see, the Spirit was burning in me at that time."[8]
Patrick relates how, after six years, he escaped and after a difficult journey on land and sea returned to his people in Scotland. In his own words, "I was again in Britain with my family [kinsfolk], and they welcomed me as a son, and asked me, in faith, that after the great tribulations I had endured I should not go any where else away from them."[9]

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[Islandretreat]

A lot people get the date Palladius arrived confused with Patrick's arrival. It's very interesting reading Wylie's history which reveals that Patrick arrived on the island in the year 405Ad, 27 years before Palladius. God bless Richard Bennett for making this video.

[Jerome112]

I have seen this muppet on before, yes thank God for St Patrick who brought the true faith to Ireland.

[ProtestantUltra]

@petruscephas The catholic church is invovled in the selling of children in ireland and then are sent to africa for all sorts of reasons , your church is not of chirst 

[ProtestantUltra]

@Torchdog And the popes isnt a dunce I take it ?

[ProtestantUltra]

@petruscephas Hold on a minute this man in the video is a former catholic jesuit , he knows more about the catholic church than you do , why all the saints , popes etc You get on as if your church and pope is holy which is evil teachings , accept Chirst not the catholic church

[larosablanca100]

This is so beautiful, Patrick's own words. Thank you for posting it.

[Redshoes531]

@thecrusades2 St Patrick was a welsh slave brought to Ireland by Niall of the Nine hostages and his clan.

[painless78]

@Paddy234 you don't believe that.

[petruscephas]

CIR229

Since you seem like a true believer in the Lord let me explain this to you. The Catholic Church never changed even one teaching of Jesus Christ and in fact the only way in which we know what he taught - through the Bible - is that the Holy Spirit operated through the Church.

The Gospel of Christ is the Gospel of the Church - there is no difference whatsoever. The Bible was written by Catholic saints, canonized and protected by the Church, and if you accept the NT, you accept the Church.

[petruscephas]

@BereanBeacon1

How wrong you are and how hateful of Christ and his Church you have become in your separation.

You know nothing of the priesthood that was established by Our Lord and the great and inestimable good that his Catholic priests have done in the world for 2,000 years.

If all you "know" about Catholic priests is "molesting children" then you are truly and willfully ignorant.

Your sexual sins are known by the Lord and you will be judged by him when you stand before his throne.

[BereanBeacon1]

@petruscephas "there were no "evangelical" or "fundamentalist" heretics" because your loving church probably burn them alive. When your priests aren't molesting children they are dying of Aids.