[SoCal Pubbie]

What is now Wales once WAS part of Roman Britain. I'm nor sure they know exactly where or when he was born. I had heard he was Scottish. For example, one website has this:

"Patrick isn't really a Saint with a capital S, having never been officially canonized by Rome. And Patrick couldn't have driven the snakes out of Ireland because there were never any snakes there to begin with. He wasn't even the first evangelist to Ireland (Palladius had been sent in 431, about five years before Patrick went). Patrick isn't even Irish. He's from what's now Dumbarton, Scotland (just northwest of Glasgow)."

He was also born Patricius, so he was probably from a relatively wealthy family and may have had Roman blood!

[Mr. Silverback]

According to his bio at Catholic Online:

Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 461.

Woohoo! Scotland claims another brilliant son!

(Not that being from Wales isn't good too...)

[B Knotts]

He most certainly is "a Saint with a capital S."

He was canonized "Pre-Congregation."

Here's some info on that: "Pre-Congregation" Beatification and Canonization

And here's a nice entry on St. Patrick:

St. Patrick