6Tillemont, t. See also Portiforium 8. On hisdesire to suffer for Christ, t. Patrick, after sixmonths spent in slavery under the same master, was admonished by God ina dream to return to his own country, and informed that a ship was thenready to sail thither.
His name, though notmentioned in the Roman Martyrology, occurs in the Greek Menaea, and wasin great veneration in the East, particularly at Constantinople, in thefamous church near Sancta Sophia. atest monarch, by enjoying the favor of heaven, and possessing God;by the empire over himself and his own passions, b Bulteau, l. Chatelain, Notes on the Martyr.