But he is shaken by an insistent dream: the plea of the Irish to come back. Fearing for his life and obeying a strange vision, Patrick escapes, leaving the girl he loves and returning home after a hazardous journey. He learns Irish language and lore, befriends the chieftain’s son and falls for the feisty daughter, making a jealous enemy of the druid’s apprentice. In misery, he embraces the faith he once loathed. We know him as Patrick.Īs an indolent teen, Patrick is abducted by pirates from his British villa and sold to a druid chieftain in remote Hibernia. While the Roman Empire crumbles into chaos, the flickering light of civilization is in the hands of a teenage pig-keeper and shepherd at the edge of the known world.
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