Warning: A day after Saint Patrick’s Day — Guess what, St. Patrick wasn’t Irish!

“At the age of sixteen, he was abducted by Irish raiders and carried across the sea into bondage. Imagine the terror of a young man torn from civilization and cast into a foreign land, stripped of comfort, reduced to servitude. For six years he toiled as a shepherd, exposed to the elements and the brutal solitude of captivity. Yet it was in this crucible of suffering that his soul was refined. Hardship became his seminary. Isolation became his sanctuary. Prayer, once neglected, became his lifeline.”