St. Patrick Didn't Get Rid of Any Snakes, But He Is The Patron Saint of Exterminators

Published: March 17, 2020, 6:45 a.m.

Nearly 1,600 years after Patrick arrived on Ireland (first as a slave, then as a missionary who brought Christianity to the island), he is celebrated as the patron saint of the Emerald Isle and apocryphally believed to have eliminated snakes from the...