I thought St. Patrick was abducted and was sold as a slave in Ireland. If he was a refugee he would be fleeing away from and not to Ireland. At least from what I read.Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, has issued his St. Patrick’s Day message and called for reflection on St. Patrick as a refugee and undocumented migrant.
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I thought St. Patrick was abducted and was sold as a slave in Ireland. If he was a refugee he would be fleeing away from and not to Ireland. At least from what I read.
This is like Ben Carson calling the African slaves who were kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Americas, immigrants.
And then he came back as a missionary… Then he was a migrant.He was not a migrant…he was kidnapped as a teen and brought as a slave to Ireland.