The Confession, and the Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus
Patrick · 450 · Before the division · public-domain-original
6 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
People it attests
- Saint Patrick 1 claim
Documents read in it
- Confessio [object Object]
- Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus [object Object]
Events it narrates
What else rests on it
2 document attributions
The only two documents certainly by Patrick, and the earliest writing to survive from Ireland or Britain by a named author. The Confession is a defence written under attack by his own superiors, which is why it is so unusually personal: he calls himself a sinner and unlearned, and he says so often enough that it reads as a wound. It contains no dates, no place names of use, and nothing about snakes or shamrocks.