It reminded me of a favorite verse of Corrie ten Boom: Yet, I can only imagine how challenging it must have been for him to return to Ireland. dePaola described Patrick's spiritual experience while he was enslaved: "he felt the love of God in his heart." Patrick returned to Ireland under much different circumstances: voluntarily, with a crew of others, as a bishop. The man followed God's call to return to the land where he was enslaved. Reading the story of St Patrick again hit me even harder as an adult. One of his best saints' books, IMO, right up there with The Holy Twins. I vividly recall reading this on St Patrick's Day as a child, and what could I do but reread it today? dePaola brings such heart to the story of St Patrick, also recounting a few of the legends about him. He thought this was a good story and gave it 3 stars. Like I have stated, he is a man of action and all the stuff in myths are more cool. The fact stuff, he didn’t care much about. He thought that Saint Patrick was pretty cool. The nephew enjoys the myth part of the book. He was a brave man living back in the 400ADs. I do remember some of the myths about him, simply not the facts about him. I probably learned some of this as a child and forgot it, but maybe not. It was a good choice to separate out fact from myth. The 2nd half, the smaller half were all the legends people tell of Saint Patrick, how he got rid of the snakes in Ireland and rode a stone in the ocean. He escaped Ireland only to eventually go back there. He prayed night and day and God began answering his prayer. The 1st half, the bigger half is about the real story of Patrick and how he lived in Britain and was abducted and sold into Irish Slavery for 6 years. Tomie does a great job of telling the story of Saint Patrick.
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