950: Visiting the Mountain where St. Patrick Prayed

Published: Feb. 23, 2018, 5:35 p.m.

Though the actual dates are sketchy, the Patrick whose birth the Irish celebrate tomorrow, was born in Roman Britain in 389 A. D.  As a youth, he spent six years herding sheep in western Ireland near a pinnacle that has become a place of pilgrimage known as Croagh Patrick.