Excerpt from Saint Patrick: His Life and Mission
Before beginning to relate the story of Saint Patrick it is well for us to understand clearly how that story has been preserved for us. Here, fortunately, we find a subject as full of human and romantic, as of scholarly interest, so that the discussion of "sources," which usually proves so forbidding to the general reader (however fascinating to the expert) is likely, in the present case, to be considered not the least appealing chapter in the whole narrative, of which it is the obligatory prelude.
These "sources" are the Saint"s own writings (the Confession and the Epistle against Coroticus) and a number of ancient Lives, dating from the seventh to the eleventh century. It will be convenient to study them under the following heads : I. - The Patrician Documents in the Book of Armagh; II. - The Vitae, published by the great Franciscan hagiographer, Father John Colgan, in his Trias Thaumaturga; III. - Other Sources.
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