Saint Patrick Kidnapped at Sixteen

Saint Patrick was born on the west coast of Northern England in 386 AD to a wealthy Protestant family. When he was 16, Irish pirates kidnapped him and took him to County Antrim in Northern Ireland. They enslaved him for six years. God spoke to him in a dream about escaping. He did escape but returned years later to tell the Irish about the love of God. He died on March 17—St. Patrick’s Day—and was buried in Ulster, Northern Ireland. The Catholic Church didn’t canonize him as a saint because canonization didn’t exist in the church yet. Some think St. Patrick was taken to Mayo on the west coast of Republic of Ireland when kidnapped. He is not mentioned in Trapped, but it’s an interesting part of Irish history and culture.