Saint Patrick, a British Christian Missionary in 5th Century Ireland, born about 387AD, the primary Patron Saint of Ireland, although never formally canonised, though regarded as a Saint.
There appears to be little evidence about the places he lived and worked, but there is the story he was born possibly in what is now thought to be the Ravenglass area of Cumbria. Captured and taken as a slave to work, looking after Farm Animals for a period of six years. Before a brief return to Cumbria, where he became a cleric and then went back to Ireland again to work in the North and West of the country.
Ravenglass in the 5th Century was in Viking England as the border with Viking Scotland is just to the north at St Bees.
