St Patrick

Description

An A3 size giclée, signed, limited edition print from the original 30″ x 24″ oil painting of St Patrick. This portrait is part of an exhibition of 12 portraits under the theme of ‘Poets, Saints & Rebels’. The portraits are of a poet, a saint and a rebel of each of the four countries of Great Britain and Ireland.

According to Patrick’s autobiographical Confessio, when he was about sixteen, he was captured by Irish pirates from his home in Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland. He writes that he lived there for six years as an animal herder before escaping and returning to his family. After becoming a cleric, he returned to spread Christianity in northern and western Ireland. In later life, he served as a bishop, but little is known about where he worked. By the seventh century, he had already come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland.

Saint Patrick’s Day, considered his feast day, is observed on 17 March, the supposed date of his death. It is celebrated in Ireland and among the Irish diaspora as a religious and cultural holiday.

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