Mark Patrick Hederman OSB, Abbot of Glenstal, reads the Lorica, or Saint Patrick’s Breastplate

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Dr Daire Keogh, lecturer in history in St. Patricks’s College Dublin spoke to Miriam Gormally about what we know of Ireland’s patron, Saint Patrick

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Patrick is Ireland’s most important saint and every year he is celebrated in more and more countries. This year’s parades in cities, towns and villages throughout Ireland underlined how important he still is in the lives of people. Andrew McCarthy talked with Father Jim McCormack, lecturer in Ecclesiastical History in All Hallows College, in Dublin. He began by exploring the question of what exactly we know about Saint Patrick.

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