In a villa on the west coast of England during the 5th century, Irish raiders disrupted the sleep and security of a fifteen-year-old boy named Patrick. They stole him from his home and placed him in chains, taking him as their slave. They forced Patrick to tend their sheep in Ireland for six years. Seeking escape from his captors and yearning to return to his family in England, Patrick snuck away and hiked about 150 miles from western Ireland back to an eastern port seeking a ship to deliver him home. He joined the ship’s crew sailing to England and…