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, but abiding in scisme, and committing the function of Bishoppes to single Preists,) to call him thither, whereunto he assented, upon the Popes answere, and leaving his Disciples in the Isle, became the speciall apostle of Scotland, where he spent the residue of his time, with more fruite then among the Irish. Hereunto Celestinus condiscended the easier, for that in the very point of Palladius his departure, Patricius attended at Rome to bee sent with leave and benediction into Ireland. In which attempt hee found such joyfull successe, so farre different from their accustomed frowardnesse, that a man would weene the Realme had beene reserved for him. And because it pleased God to worke to the Land such an universall benefite by the meanes of this holy Patriarch, I take it convenient to set downe briefly here his course of life, after the most approoved Chronicles that I could finde.

Patricius was borne in the marches of England and Scotland, in a sea towne called then Taburnia, whose father Calphrune (as writeth Ioseline) was a Deacon and a Priests sonne, his mother Conches was sister to S. Martin, the famous Bishoppe of Toures in France. The childe was from his cradle brought up in the Faith, and much given to devotion.