, now Ulster, . . 392

3. After six years' captivity, and being twenty-one years
old, he returns to his home in Britain, . . . . . . . . . . 397

4. After three months he went to Aremorica with his parents,
and was taken by the Picts two months into captivity. He
was taken captive a third time, and taken to Bordeaux,
where he was set at liberty, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398

5. Passing thence to Tours, he became a monk in the Monastery
of St. Martin, and after four years of monastic life
returned to the Island of Temar, which is supposed to be
the same as Ireland, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

6. St. Patrick was called by visions into Gaul, and proceeded
into Italy, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403

7. According to the customs of monks at that time, he spent
seven years in wanderings over mountains and through
islands, and, obeying the admonition of an angel, was
ordained priest by Bishop S. Senior, . . . . . . . . . . . 410

8. Having studied three years, St. Patrick is called by
visions into Ireland to preach the Gospel, . . . . . . . . 413

9. St. Patrick, through love of solitude, returns into
Britain to Valle Rosina, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414

10. Being received at Antissiodorum by St. Amator,
A.D. 414, he remains there four years, and passes to
St. Germanus in the forty-second year of his age, . . . . . 418

11. Having spent nearly four years with St. Germanus,
St. Patrick departed for the Isle of Lerina, . . . . . . . 421

12. St. Patrick spent nine years in the Island of Lerina,
opposite Norbonne, and, knowing that the time for his
mission to Ireland was at hand, returned to Germanus
at Aries, now Orleans, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430

13. Palladius returned from Ireland, his mission having
failed, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

14. St. Patrick is sent by St. Celestine in Ireland, . . . . . 432

15. Being consecrated bishop by the Bishop of Tours, he bids
farewell to St. Germanus in passing through Gaul, and,
having landed on the shore of Leinster, baptizes Sinellum
in the autumn of the same year, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432

16. St. Patrick proceeds to Ulster, preaches the faith to
Milcho, and makes many converts, . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

17. St. Patrick prea