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Order of St Patrick was founded in 1783, to reward those in high office in
Ireland and Irish peers on whose support the government.

Saint Patrick (386 493) was a missionary and is regarded as the patron saint
of Ireland (along with Saint Brigid and Saint Columba). He is also the patron
saint of excluded people, engineers, and Nigeria, which was evangelized
primarily by Irish missionaries, especially priests from Saint Patrick's
Missionary Society (also known as the Kiltegan Missionaries).
He was born somewhere along the west coast of Great Britain in the little
settlement or village of Bannavem of Taburnia, which has never been
identified with certainty. Sites suggested include Dumbarton, Furness and
Somerset, or the coastline of Wales or northern France; another possibility put
forward for his birthplace is the settlement of Bannaventa in
Northamptonshire, for raiders captured him with "many thousands of people"
according to Patrick's autobiographical Confessio, and sold them as slaves in Ireland. The tiny Welsh
village of Banwen has often been suggested as his birth place. It was clearly occupied in Roman times,
sitting on the Neath-Brecon Roman road and next to the two Roman forts in Coelbren. His given name
was Maewyn Succat.

Although he came from a Christian family, he was not particularly religious before his capture. However,
Patrick's enslavement markedly strengthened his faith. In his confession of faith Patrick writes how, "In
that strange land (Ireland) the Lord opened my unbelieving eyes." After that the "Spirit was glowing" in
Patrick. It was at this same time that he learned the native Celtic languages and the customs of the druids,

as his master was a druidic high priest. He escaped at the age of 22, as legend has it, under the direction of
an angel, and spent 12 years in a monastery in Auxerre, where he adopted the name Patrick (Patricius, in
Old Irish spelled Pdraig). One night he heard voices begging him to return to Ireland, and he thus, by
then in his 30s, became one of the first Christian missionaries in Ireland, being preceded by Palladius.
Great Britain at this time was undergoing turmoil following the withdrawal of Roman troops in 407 and
Roman central authority in 410. Having been under the Roman cloak for over 350 years, the RomanoBritish had to look after themselves. Populations were on the move on the European continent, and the
recently converted Christian Great Britain was being colonized by pagan Anglo-Saxons.

His first converted patron was Saint Dichu, who made a gift of a large barn
for a church sanctuary. This first sanctuary dedicated by St Patrick became in
later years his chosen retreat. A monastery and church were erected there, and
there Patrick died; the site, Saul, County Down, retains the name Sabhall
(pronounced "Sowel").
Patrick set up his see at Armagh and organized the church into territorial sees,
as elsewhere in the West and East. While Patrick encouraged the Irish to
become monks and nuns, it is not certain that he was a monk himself. It is
even less likely that in his time the monastery became the principal unit of the
Irish Church, although it was in later periods. The choice of Armagh may
have been determined by the presence of a powerful king. There Patrick had a
school and presumably a small familia in residence; from this base he made
his missionary journeys. There seems to have been little contact with the
Palladian Christianity of the southeast.
One famous story relates that at the annual vernal fire that was to be lit by the High King at Tara, when all
the fires were extinguished so they could be renewed from the sacred fire from Tara, Patrick lit a rival,
miraculously inextinguishable Christian bonfire on the hill of Slane at the opposite end of the valley. The
season was associated with Easter by chroniclers who followed Patrick's own account in his Confessio.
Patrick was not the first Christian missionary to Ireland, as men such
as Secundus and Palladius were active there before him. However,
tradition accords him the most impact, and his missions seem to have
been concentrated in the provinces of Ulster and Connaught which had
never received Christians before. He established the Church
throughout Ireland on lasting foundations: he travelled throughout the
country preaching, teaching, building churches, opening schools and
monasteries, converting chiefs and bards, and everywhere supporting
his preaching with miracles. He threw down the idol of Crom Cruach
in Leitrim.
Patrick wrote that he daily expected to be violently killed or enslaved
again. His Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus protested British slave
trading and the slaughter of a group of Irish Christians by Coroticus's
raiding Christian Welshmen, and is the first surely identified literature
of the British or Celtic Catholic Church. Patrick gathered many
followers, including Saint Benignus, who would become his successor. His chief concerns were the
raising up of native clergy, and abolishing Paganism, idolatry, and Sun-worship. He made no distinction
of classes in his preaching and was himself ready for imprisonment or death. He was the first writer to
condemn all forms of slavery.
Pious legend credits Patrick with banishing snakes from the island, though post-glacial Ireland never

actually had snakes [3]; one suggestion is that snakes referred to the serpent
symbolism of the Druids of that time and place, as shown for instance on
coins minted in Gaul, or that it could have referred to beliefs such as
Pelagianism, symbolized as "serpents." Legend also credits Patrick with
teaching the Irish about the concept of the Trinity by showing people the
shamrock, a three-leaved clover, using it to highlight the Christian dogma of
'three divine persons in the one God' (as opposed to the Arian belief that was
popular in Patrick's time). Whether or not these legends are true, the very
fact that there are so many legends about Patrick shows how important his
ministry was to Ireland.
In his use of Scripture and eschatological expectations, Patrick was typical
of the 5th-century bishop. One of the traits which he retained as an old man
was a consciousness of being an unlearned exile and former slave and
fugitive, who learned to trust God completely.

Patrick died in AD 493 according to the latest reconstruction of the old Irish
annals. Prior to the 1940's it was believed without doubt that he died in 461 and
thus had lived in the first half of the 5th century. A lecture entitled "The Two
Patricks", published in 1942 by T. F. O'Rahilly, caused enormous controversy
by proposing that there had been two "Patricks", Palladius and Patrick, and that
what we now know of St. Patrick was in fact in part a conscious effort to meld
the two into one hagiographic personality. Decades of contention eventually
ended with most historians now asserting that Patrick was indeed most likely to
have been active in the mid-to-late 5th century.
The compiler of the Annals of Ulster stated that in the year 553:
I have found this in the Book of Cuanu: The relics of Patrick were placed sixty
years after his death in a shrine by Colum Cille. Three splendid halidoms were
found in the burial-place: his goblet, the Angel's Gospel, and the Bell of the
Testament. This is how the angel distributed the halidoms: the goblet to Dn, the
Bell of the Testament to Ard Macha, and the Angel's Gospel to Colum Cille
himself. The reason it is called the Angel's Gospel is that Colum Cille received it
from the hand of the angel.
The placement of this event under the year 553 would certainly seem to place Patrick's death in 493, or at
least in the early years of that decade, and indeed the Annals of Ulster report in 493:
Patrick, arch-apostle, or archbishop and apostle of the Irish, rested on the 16th of the Kalends of April in
the 120th year of his age, in the 60th year after he had come to Ireland to baptize the Irish.
March 17, popularly known as St. Patrick's Day, is believed to be his death date (according to the
Encyclopedia Britannica) and is the date celebrated as his feast day.
For most of Christianity's first thousand years, canonizations were done on the diocesan or regional level.
Relatively soon after the death of people considered to be very holy people, the local Church affirmed
that they could be liturgically celebrated as saints. As a result of this informal process, St. Patrick has
never been formally canonized by a Pope. St. Patrick is said to be buried in under Downe Cathedral in
Downpatrick, County Down alongside St. Brigid and St. Columba, although this has never been proven.

The Order of St Patrick was founded in 1783, to reward those in high office in Ireland and Irish peers on
whose support the government of the day depended. It therefore served as the national Order of Ireland as

the Garter was for England and the Thistle for Scotland. The Order lapsed in 1974 with the death of the
last surviving recipient, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.
Originally, the number of Knights of St Patrick was 15, and this increased to 22 in 183 3. The Knights
wore mantles of sky-blue satin, and the star of the Order was embroidered in silver on the right breast.
The Order's most famous insignia were the badge and star used by the Lords Lieutenant; these were
made available for the serving Lord Lieutenant's use in 1830 by William IV. The insignia were made
from 394 stones taken in part from some of Queen Charlotte's jewellery and from one of the Order of the
Bath Badges which had belonged to her husband George III. Known as the 'Irish Crown Jewels', the
insignia were stolen from Dublin Castle in 1907 and never recovered. The Order effectively went into
abeyance with the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.
The Great Hall, or Ballroom, became known as St. Patrick's Hall when George III instituted the
'Illustrious Order of St. Patrick' in 1783. The central panel, of Valdre's ceiling paintings in St. Patrick's
Hall, depicts the event with King George seated on a dais, between the symbolic figures of Great Britain
with the then British flag and Ireland with her harp, while Justice and Liberty are in attendance. The stall
plates along the walls chronologically record the names and the banners show the family crests of the
Knights of St. Patrick. Their insignia, an eight-pointed star, is above the eastern doorway and one of their
ceremonial badges is on view in a glass case on the north wall.
The 'Illustrious Order of St. Patrick' was the Irish equivalent of the English 'Order of the Garter' and the
Scottish 'Order of the Thistle'. Knights were required to be 'descended of three descents of nobleness' on
both paternal and maternal sides. Its purpose was to give social advancement to senior peers and so,
further secure their loyalty. An award of Knighthood was seen as evidence of the high social standing of
the recipient and there was considerable competition for the limited places.
The lavish investiture ceremony of Knighthood took place in St. Patrick's Hall. As soldie rs lined the
route, the new knights in elaborate garb, walked in ceremonial procession to an installation ceremony in
St. Patrick's Cathedral. A celebratory banquet took place later in the Castle. The 'Irish Crown Jewels' was
the name by which the Insignia of the Knights of St. Patrick became known. They consisted of the Grand
Master's diamond badge set in silver with a trefoil in emeralds on a ruby cross and various other valuable
jewels. They were stored in a bank vault, except when in use. In 1903, they were transferred to a safe,
which was to be placed in the newly constructed strong room in Bedford Hall. However, the steel safe
proved to be too large for the doorway and Arthur Vicars, the Officer of Arms, agreed to them being
stored in the Library.
It was discovered that they had been stolen only four days before the State Visit of King Edward VII and
Queen Alexandra. The King had intended to invest Lord Castletown as a Knight of the Order, but was
furious on account of the theft and cancelled the ceremony.
Although under great pressure, Vicars refused to resign. Rumours were spread about his sexual
orientation, with the objective of shaming him into leaving. It didn't work, and he refused to appear at the
sworn Viceregal Commission, demanded a public royal inquiry instead and accused his second in
command, Francis Shackleton (brother of Ernest - the Antarctic Explorer) of the wrongdoing. However
Shackleton was exonerated by the commission, while Vicars was found culpable.
Later Shackleton was jailed for misappropriating a widow's savings. Arthur Vicars spent his remaining
years as a recluse, in a 'big house' (ascendancy manor) in Co. Kerry. On the 14th April 1921, in the period
between the War of Independence and the Civil War, an armed IRA contingent brought him out of
Kilmorna Castle and shot him dead, before burning the building.
As Ireland is a Republic, this Order of Knighthood is no longer in existence. St. Patrick's Hall is now
mainly used for State functions, including inaugurations of Ireland's Presidents. The Office of Arms is
now part of Dublin Castle Conference Centre facilities. The Irish Crown Jewels have never been located.