Above: St Patrick , give First of Order of Saint before his death

In Patrick’s retinue during the course of his mission, twenty-four   persons—bishop,   priest,   judge,   champioi irdnjhear, psalmist,  chamberlain,  bell-ringer, cook, brT chaplain . sagart meise, charioteer, fireman, cowherd, waiters,  three smiths, three artisans,  three embroider. This, says the Tripartite Life, was the number that be in the company of Joseph—probably,  the thirty-successor of   Patrick at Armagh, 945—and at   the Id Cashel’s table from the time of Feidlimidh.  Aonghus christian king of Munster is said to have kept two bishop, ten priests and seventy-two young clerics in attendant him to say Masses and offer prayers.  During the years! Patrick ruled the Church in Ireland, says Nennius; History of Britain,  as quoted by Keating,  " he built churches,   consecrated   355   bishops,1   and    ordained priests.   He appointed two archbishops, the archbish Armagh,  Primarte of  Ireland, over Leath Chuinn,  and archbishop of Cashel over Leath Mogha.    And he set a tithe of the land, men and cattle of Ireland for the Chu made monks of the men and nuns of the women, and monasteries for them."    Before the Saint’s death the first of three famous Orders of Saints had arisen, and the valiant women of race gloriously seconded tilt efforts.