Saint Patrick the Man

A major challenge I had to overcome in writing my story on Saint Patrick was how to portray the man. What kind of person was the man not the legend? Very early on in the process I made a decision that he would not be the caricature thet we see on St. Patricks Day. An old man, with a grey beard, wandering around blessing people. My Patrick was a young man on his return to Ireland, nineteen years old and full of the vigours of life. He was certainly not a saint at this point, instead he was a man filled with respect for Christianity and nature. But he also had a burning desire to right the terrible injustice that had been done to him. Before his very eyes his father had been brutally murdered and his mother sold into slavery. Patrick was then enslaved and left to rot on a near barren mountain, being hunted and nearly killed like an animal as tried to escape. This is a side of St. Patrick that has never been shown before and forms the core of the story in Patrick Warrior Saint.