Saint Patrick

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Rogers received his undergraduate degree from Furman University in South Carolina and holds a Ph.D. in seventeenth-century English literature from Vanderbilt University. The Rogers family lives in Nashville! Tennessee! where Jonathan makes a living as a writer. Klappentext "Christian Encounters!" a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers! highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church. Some are familiar faces. Others are unexpected guests. But all! through their relationships! struggles! prayers! and desires! uniquely illuminate our shared experience. At age 14! he was captured from his homeland of Scotland by Irish marauders and taken as a slave to Ireland! where he lived for six years tending his master's flocks. In his early twenties! he fled over 200 miles and escaped by ship! returning to his family. By the eighth century! he had come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland. What did he experience during his years of slavery that proved invaluable to this man who became a revered missionary who "baptised thousands of people!" converted sons of kings! and led wealthy women to become nuns? Learn about the sustaining faith of St. Patrick in this "Christian Encounters" biography. Zusammenfassung In this Christian Encounter Series biography! author Jonathan Rogers explores the life of Saint Patrick: slave! shepherd! and courageous missionary. Patrick was born the son of privilege and position! but he was only a teenager when he was taken from his home in Roman Britain by marauders and sold into slavery in Ireland. Despite his terrible circumstances! young Patrick did not give way to despair. As he worked as a shepherd in the pastures of his new owner! he kindled the faith he’d inherited from his family and eventually escaped to freedom. Then! after returning home! he experienced a dream that changed everything: God wanted him to go back and take the Gospel to the country of his captors. Patrick heeded the call. Both humble enough to minister to beggars and bold enough to confront kings! Patrick led the Irish through his brave and compassionate service into the Christian faith and baptized thousands. Separating the many myths from the facts! Jonathan Rogers weaves a wonder-filled tale of courage! barbarism! betrayal! and hope in God’s unceasing faithfulness. Countless miracles have been attributed to Saint Patrick! but perhaps one of the simplest and most amazing is that he won the hearts and souls of the same fierce and indomitable people who had enslaved him.   ...

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Rogers
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2010
• EAN: 9781595553058
• ISBN: 978-1-59555-305-8
• No. of pages: 143
• Series: Christian Encounters; Christian Encounters Series; Christian Encounters Series
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies