The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick: Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings

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The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick has three main objectives. First to give a biography of St. Patrick without giving a history lesson on the national church he founded. Second to present the life of St. Patrick through the most ancient texts that exist on his life. Third to give the public an affordable collection of these works. Included in this volume are The Confession of St. Patrick, St. Patrick's Epistle to Coroticus, St. Fiech's Metrical Life of St. Patrick, Tripartite Life: Part I, Tripartite Life: Part II, Tripartite Life: Part III, The Proeme of Jocelyn, and The Life and Acts of St. Patrick by Joceli.