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Was Saint Patrick a slave-trading tax collector? (KSAT)

While Saint Patrick's Day has long been the preserve of Guinness-drinking
revellers painting the world's towns green while wearing shamrock hats, Irish
Catholics have always taken pride in their nation's Patron Saint.

Now a new study from Cambridge University based on his writings suggests Saint
Patrick was not brought to Ireland as a slave, as the legend has it, but that
in fact he may actually have sold slaves his family owned to pay his way to
Ireland -- in order to avoid a job as a tax collector for the Roman empire.

The findings fly in the face of the classic account of the life of Saint
Patrick, who grew up as a member of the Roman nobility in western Britain and
was supposedly abducted and forced into slavery in Ireland around 400 A.D.
According to this history, Patrick escaped and became a priest before having a
vision and returning to Ireland to convert the Irish to Christianity.

Legend has it Saint Patrick used the shamrock, now the national emblem of
Ireland, to explain the concept of the Holy Trinity, by showing an unbeliever
the three-leafed plant with one stalk.

The new study, based ...

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