Deepertruth: Take Courage Be A Man: "Man Crisis" with Mark Kiser

St. Patrick was taken to modern day Dalriada as a slave tending sheep which in a real way, became a source of strength for him.  He was able to identify with young King Davidas he remembered the stories of the bible coming to life.

In The Confession,St. Patrick wrote:

"The love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same. I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain."

The Irish were practicing Druids and St. Patricks master, Milchu was a high priest which was a major influence enslaving the people of Ireland.  One night St. Patrick received a vision through a dream in which he heard a voice telling him his way home to England:

"I saw, in a nocturnal vision, a man named Victoricus  coming as if from Ireland, with a large parcel of letters, one of which he handed to me. On reading the beginning of it, I found it contained these words: 'The voice of the Irish;' and while reading it I thought I heard, at the same moment, the voice of a multitude of persons near the Wood of Foclut, which is near the western sea; and they cried out, as if with one voice, 'We entreat thee, holy youth, to come and henceforth walk amongst us. ' And I was greatly affected in my heart, and could read no longer; and then I awoke."