[caption id="attachment_1310" align="alignnone" width="720" caption="St Patrick Picture"][/caption] Above: Picture of St Patrick Consecrated by Germanus, Patrick set  out  to  continue the mission in 432, some thirty years after the death of Saint Martin, from whom he is said to have received the tonsure.    Some accounts represent him as accompanied by twenty-four holy  clerics,"   some   by   even   more. Like Palladius, he landed at Inver Dea, the mouth of the Vartry, near Wicklow.    After a brief stay, cut short by the hostility of the people, he proceeded ... Read More