Many stories have speculated on who Saint Patrick was. That he was an Englishman has been less accepted throughout the Centuries, and with troubles between England and Ireland some began saying that he was perhaps Welsh.
Saint Patrick may have been an English lord displaced by saxons, who then joined the holy roman empire and was given the task of Christianising the Irish. He might have had a hard time. He disappeared to fast on more than one occasion. He was missed when he went back to England and according to ancient scripts the Irish wrote to him saying, come walk with us again.