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‘Christ be with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me … Christ in the heart of everyone
who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who thinks of me.’ St Patrick

Sort the jumbled words to complete the account of St Patrick.

Patrick was orbn _______ in 390 AD in Britain. It seems that he worked on his

father’s mrfa ________ more than doing his lessons; he later described himself as

illiterate. When he was sixteen he was snatched by ishrI ______ pirates and was sold

into slavery. For xis ______ years he watched over the sheep of his pagan master in

Ireland. He speaks of how ‘the Lord opened the understanding of my unbelief, that,

late as it was, I might remember my faults and turn to the orLd ________ my God

with all my heart.’

Patrick had a iiosvn_____________ in which God told him to walk 200 miles to find

a phis _________to take him to freedom. He landed in ualG ________ where he

spent several years studying in a monastery before returning to Britain. rkcPtia

____________had another vision in which he felt called back to Ireland which was a

pagan country at that time. He landed there in 433 AD and was given a rbna__________

for a church.

According to legends Patrick’s miracles defeated mcagi ___________ so that he

could control eirf _____________, drive away demons, tame wlovse ____________

and cure the blind. He sought to convert the ylora ____________ families in Ireland

before he could move amongst the ordinary people. Patrick’s mission helped to

promote the need for the evangelisation of western Eopreu _____________ .

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