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Stone found below St. Patrick's Well. St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. Other places named after Saint Patrick include: Patrickswell Lane, a well in Drogheda Town where St. Patrick opened a monastery and baptised the townspeople. Ardpatrick, County Limerick (from Irish Ard Pádraig, meaning 'high place of Patrick') [143] [failed ...
In others, the surname Patrick is a shortened form of the surnames Mulpatrick and Fitzpatrick. [1] Many instances of Patrick as a surname appear in Ireland due to Scottish emigration. [1] It can also be a form of the English surname Partridge [3] or an Americanization of several Slavic names. [1] [4] People with the surname Patrick include:
Muirchú moccu Machtheni (Latin: Maccutinus), usually known simply as Muirchú, (born sometime in the seventh century) was a monk and historian from Leinster.He wrote the Vita sancti Patricii, known in English as The Life of Saint Patrick, one of the first accounts of the fifth-century saint, and which credits Patrick with the conversion of Ireland in advance of the spread of monasticism.
St. Patrick's Day marks the day Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, died in 461, but many of the lively traditions we know today began with Irish Americans.
St. Patrick was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Curtis St. Patrick, a hot dog vendor, and Brenda (née Queen), who taught grade school. [2] He was on the varsity track team of Olney High School, [3] but graduated in 1986 from Scotland School for Veterans' Children in Scotland, Pennsylvania, the last remaining school for children of military veterans in the United States.
St Patrick's Purgatory, a pilgrimage site in County Donegal; St Patrick's (civil parish, Clare and Limerick) St Patrick's Street in Cork; St. Patrick's, Carlow College, a third level liberal arts college in Carlow; Dublin St Patrick's (UK Parliament constituency), a constituency in the British Parliament that was dissolved in 1922
Traditionally, the book was claimed to be that given by St Patrick himself to his companion St Macartan, [5] [6] making it an object of great veneration. [7] Around 1350, the abbot of Clones, John O Carbry, commissioned a substantial remodelling of the Domnach Airgid. [8] The figure of St. Patrick is thought to be at the lower right of the cover.
Fitzpatrick (/ f ɪ t s ˈ p æ t r ɪ k / ⓘ) is an Irish surname that most commonly arose as an anglicised version of the Irish patronymic surname Mac Giolla Phádraig (Irish: [mˠək ˈɟɪl̪ˠə ˈfˠaːd̪ˠɾˠəɟ]) [1] "Son of the Devotee of (St.) Patrick".