Saint Patrick by Jonathan Rogers

Saint Patrick by Jonathan Rogers is a condensed biography of Saint Patrick’s deeds in converting the Irish to Christianity. Rogers bases his writing of Saint Patrick on two documents written by Saint Patrick, “The Confession” and “The Letter.” These two documents are very moving and Rogers attaches them as appendices. In this book, Rogers relates to us how Saint Patrick, the son of Roman British nobility, became a slave in Ireland, became a Christian, gave up his nobility status, and became a crusader bent on converting Ireland to Christianity. Rogers relates both the factual and legendary, but only in clarifying fact from fiction. While I am not a Catholic, I was curious about St. Patrick, and as such, decided to read this book. I now know, since reading Saint Patrick, that all I knew was legendary (fictional). I am very glad I read this book for I am no longer ignorant about who was Saint Patrick; on the contrary, I now admire Saint Patrick very much and now would like to do some research on him. Overall, for a very short work, I feel that Jonathan Rogers has done an excellent job, especially when he had to cover so much time in history.