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At dawn on March 17, 2025, a group of Christians gather around St. Patrick’s grave in Downpatrick, County Down, in Ireland to pray the Lord’s Prayer 100 times for peace and unity.

Christians pray 100 Our Fathers at St. Patrick’s grave in Ireland for peace and unity

Mar 17, 2025

By Patrick J. Passmore

It was the third year in a row that friends and strangers from all walks of life joined together in... Read more

St. Brigid of Kildare building the Church of the Oak, detail from a window of St. Etheldreda’s Church in London.

Ireland’s spiritual mother faces secular reinterpretation

Feb 1, 2025

By Patrick J. Passmore

In Ireland, Feb. 1 marks the beginning of spring and the celebration of “Lá Fhéile Bríde” — St. Brigid’s Day. Read more

Detail of stained glass depicting St. Patrick, in Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Goleen, County Cork.

What St. Patrick can still teach the world

Mar 17, 2024

Though he lived more than 15 centuries ago, St. Patrick has a lesson to teach our world today. Read more

All-Ireland Primate: Pandemic a chance to ‘rescue’ real St. Patrick from shamrocks and green beer

Mar 17, 2021

By Hannah Brockhaus

The pandemic is a chance to rescue the real St. Patrick from things like green beer and shamrocks, Archbishop Eamon... Read more

Stained glass of St. Patrick by C.E. Kempe in the church of St John the Baptist.

Patrick: The saint who knew what it was like to be a slave

Mar 17, 2021

By Kevin J. Jones

Many know that Saint Patrick, bishop and missionary to Ireland, was once a slave – but few know of his... Read more

St. Patrick, as seen in C.E. Kempe's stained glass in St. John the Baptist parish, Burford, UK.

Patrick: the saint who knew what it was like to be a slave

Mar 17, 2015

By Kevin J. Jones

Many know that Saint Patrick, bishop and missionary to Ireland, was once a slave – but few know of his... Read more