Was Saint Patrick a Baptist?

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I know he was not, but my wife comes from a Baptist family (she’s been Catholic since 1997). Her grandfather is fond of saying St. Patrick was a Baptist preacher, he never says this when I’m around. I know its not true but if I ever get a chance I want to be able to refute that claim to him and have it be rock solid. Any idea where they get this stuff from? Thanks, God bless.
 
newadvent.org/cathen/11554a.htm

I don’t know why he’d say that Dave, but here is the life of St Patrick. After scanning it quickly I can’t find anything about what you said.

Perhaps he just loves St Patrick and so likes to think of him this way.

In the Living Prayer of my life
 
I guess he had said something about a book this is in in the library, but never mentioned the title.
 
dizzy_dave said:
I know he was not, but my wife comes from a Baptist family (she’s been Catholic since 1997). Her grandfather is fond of saying St. Patrick was a Baptist preacher, he never says this when I’m around. I know its not true but if I ever get a chance I want to be able to refute that claim to him and have it be rock solid. Any idea where they get this stuff from? Thanks, God bless.
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Dave, this most likely comes from the “Trail of Blood” theology of some Baptists wherein they claim that THEY were the original Christians (and then Catholics showed up and started persecuting them) - thus St. Patrick is seen as one of “theirs”. For a refutation of the “Trail of Blood” see here:

catholicconvert.com/Portals/0/BaptistsAtNicea.pdf
 
The Baptist Church was founded by John Smythe in Amsterdam, in 1609.

St. Patrick was born in 387 and is thought to have died some time between 460 and 493.

It is therefore physically impossible for St. Patrick to have been a Baptist, even apart from the fact that he was baptized in the Catholic Church, and ordained as a Bishop by the Pope in Rome.
 
And on top of all the previous great answers, he is the one making the claim so the burden of proof lies directly on him.
Not that he will be able to come up with anything of substance.
 
dizzy_dave said:
I know he was not, but my wife comes from a Baptist family (she’s been Catholic since 1997). Her grandfather is fond of saying St. Patrick was a Baptist preacher, he never says this when I’m around. I know its not true but if I ever get a chance I want to be able to refute that claim to him and have it be rock solid. Any idea where they get this stuff from? Thanks, God bless.
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Showing once again that the biggest problem with Baptists is that they don’t hold them under the water long enough:rolleyes:

(I wonder how much penance I must do for that wisecrack:D )
 
Thanks everyone. Yes I like the facts. It just gets annoying when someone throws something out there as “fact”, then you have to refute it, and in my case with him, he never says these things when I’m around. He’s still upset my wife became a Catholic.
 
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Thanks everyone. Yes I like the facts. It just gets annoying when someone throws something out there as “fact”, then you have to refute it, and in my case with him, he never says these things when I’m around. He’s still upset my wife became a Catholic.
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If he was certain of his beliefs, he wouldn’t tip toe behind your back. He’d say it whenever he felt like it whether you were there or not.

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I think that this idea is a joke that personally I wouldn’t look at seriously. If you do want to answer this matter, you ought to learn if you can what he meant by this by saying this first. I think that he could mean a number of different things by saying this, if it was a serious opinion on his part.
 
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