james bond
Well-Known Member
Patrick before he became a saint was a rabble rouser.
Patrick was born 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.”
He was also an atheist in a Christian family.
"AN ATHEIST IN A CHRISTIAN FAMILY—Patrick descended from a Christian family that had been, for at least two generations, 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] However, as a rebellious youth, Patrick had no interest in Christ, living instead for fun, adventure and pleasure. He wrote, “I did not then believe in the living God, nor had I believed, since my infancy…”
Magairle.
https://christiananswers.net/q-eden/patrick.html
Patrick was born 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.”
He was also an atheist in a Christian family.
"AN ATHEIST IN A CHRISTIAN FAMILY—Patrick descended from a Christian family that had been, for at least two generations, 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] However, as a rebellious youth, Patrick had no interest in Christ, living instead for fun, adventure and pleasure. He wrote, “I did not then believe in the living God, nor had I believed, since my infancy…”
Magairle.
https://christiananswers.net/q-eden/patrick.html