I was listening this morning to thing on the radio that was saying that St.Patrick was actually Welsh and that when he was a boy he was kidnapped by Irish bandits and sold as a slave.
After a few years he escaped and returned to Wales and went into the ministry. When he rose to Bishop he went back to Ireland to educate the heathens and it was regarded as an act of complete and utter Forgiveness, hence he became their Patron saint.
I really don't understand Religion at all
I think it may have all been about the Guiness, just to prove he wasn't bitter, or perhaps it was about giving them the Bishops finger
Sandy