Maewyn Succat (now called Patrick) was sold to a pagan Druid chieftan who put him to work herding sheep.
In his sixteenth year, Patrick was carried off into captivity by Irish marauders and was sold as a slave to a chieftan named Milchu in Dalriada, a territory of the present county of Antrim in Ireland, where for six years he tended his master's flocks in the valley of the Braid and on the slopes of Slemish, near the modern town of Ballymena.
He was taken to Ireland and sold as a slave.
He was sold as a slave to an Irish chieftan.
I've read that ST Patrick was captured by "pirates" and sold as a slave in Ireland.
You have it backwards. Saint Patrick's Day was named after Saint Patrick. March 15 is the Catholic feast day of Saint Patrick.
Patrick was sold in Ireland by his Irish Pirate kidnappers as a servant (or slave.)He tended sheep in Ireland for the years of his captivity.
they haven't gone on sale yet
Saint Patrick was not married.
No, Saint Patrick was not a thief.
Patrick, then known as Maewyn Succat, was abducted from the British mainland, probably Scotland, and taken as a prisoner to Ireland where he was sold as a slave.
Saint Patrick is buried in Down Patrick, Northern Ireland
No, Saint Patrick is Saint Patrick and not known by another saint's name. His birth name, however, was Maewyn Succat.
Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.