and why not - if you’re making up facts why stop with small ones? That whole “The Big Lie” kinda deal. But on a side note, did you ever read “How the Irish Saved Civilization”? It relates a lot of fascinating info on Patrick and his great Baptist counterpart St. Columba and their doings.
I like the book though I don’t completely agree with it — the Irish did retain civilisation while the rest of Western Europe was over-run by barbarians (with the exceptions of Rome, Sicily, the southern tip of ITaly and Venetia (all under Byzantine protection). Greece and the lower balkans were under the protection of the Byzantines as was the rest of the Middle East, so civilisation remained over there.