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Roman Britain? St. Patrick was Welsh. The Irish pirates kidnapped him from his home in Wales. He did eventually return to his family in Wales, but his love of the Irish people caused him to spend the remainder of his life in Ireland.

My maternal grandmother was Irish (Manley). My paternal grandmother was Scotch/Irish (Dunn). My paternal grandfather was 100% Welsh (Edwards). Maternal grandfather was probably a Norman surname (Fanshaw).

The Month of March should be Celtic history month. March 1st is St. David's Day (patron saint of Wales). March 17th is St. Patrick's Day. Many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Welsh.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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!