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The first trip to Ireland at the age of 16 was not of his free will. He was kidnapped in Britain and sold as a slave in Ireland. The second trip to Ireland was under orders from Pope Celestine I who sent him there as a bishop and missionary.

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if your talking about st. Patrick then the folklore tells of him being taken as a prisoner by Irish pirates and brought back to Ireland.

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he was a slave

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