Hardly a Saint!

The REAL Facts about Saint Patricks Day

Patrick or "Pádraig" was not his real name it was: Maewyn Succat

He was not Irish

There were no snakes in Ireland to chase out. 

The 'snakes' being a metaphor for the Pagan culture (Which remained strong and proud long after he died)

He and his converts actually destroyed more positive within Gaelic culture than preserve them.

He tried dividing the Irish from their native culture because 'God' told him to bring a foreign religion to them.

Irish Catholicism remains highly Pagan to this day. Many "folk customs" are actually left over Pagan traditions combined with Catholicism. 

The Celtic Cross shows how the Christain faith had to try and use the native faith to explain it's doctrines. 

The Gael had the concept of the Trinity long before he introduced it.

The Shamrock and the Clover are different.

KILTS/BAGPIPES are NOT Irish, they are Scottish.

~ "Patrick" was a Roman and a Brythonic Celt by blood and wasn't Irish-Gael, his name wasn't Patrick/Pádraig it was Maewyn Succat

~ He was no "Saint", as he spent his youth debauching in the high-lifestyle fashion of all spoiled-aristocrat sharing in what nobles of the Roman Empire were accustom to. 

~  He was a rich kid, son of the Decurio of a province in Roman Britain, which is comparable to a Governor or Lord.

~ He didn't bring Christianity to Ireland, missionaries had been there for a long time prior to his birth. It just didn't catch on because the majority of the locals were happy with their faith. It didn't really take solid root for centuries after his death. 

~ He was captured by Nialach raiders and sold to Milchu, where he served as a swineherd for seven years before being released... not him escaping! He later came back with mercenaries from his mother's family (his father was Roman, his mother a Welsh/Brythonic) and murdered Milchu and his entire family except for his youngest son, burned his farm, and brainwashed the surviving son into a mindless zealot. 

~  He lied profusely about his accomplishments in his self-congratulatory autobiography, most of which has since been debunked by historians, and even the Catholic Church says much of it is allegory and metaphor. 

~  The only reason he is credited the way he is was because he had a lot of his fathers and political money to fund a huge PR machine of books and people that were paid to spread his version of history.

~  The only real success he had was converting the king of one of the major tribes in Eastern Ireland who's Draoithe(Druids) had gotten too big for their britches. They felt they should rule through a puppet king, and threatened the king by telling him to do as they said or he would not be allowed to make public sacrifice. "Patrick" offered him a new chieftain-a god to put above the others- something that fit into Gaelic cosmology to some extent, but was a gross violation of Christian doctrine- in order to win him over by saying this new chieftain-god would give the kings power instead of the Draoithe(Druids). The fact that said power was later usurped by the bishops was a dirty little secret he forgot to mention.