The Confession of Saint Patrick and His Epistle to Coroticus

The Confession of Saint Patrick and the Epistle to Coroticus are two of the most famous writings left by Saint Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland.

The Confession reveals to us the spiritual beauty of the Saint who gave his labour and his mind and his life to bring the Irish to the knowledge of the Gospel, loved them with the yearning love of a father and thought of them all from the first to the last.

In the Epistle to Coroticus, he proves himself to be the true shepherd who courageously stands up for his persecuted flock, calling out its enemies as “patricides, fratricides, and ravening wolves.”