The Life of St. Patrick and His Place in History

J.B. Bury was a celebrated historian who wrote around the turn of the 19th century.  His classics on the Roman Empire and Greece still stand among the best texts on the classical civilizations.

Saint Patrick (387 –493 or 460 A.D.)  was a Christian missionary who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints.  Bury’s The Life of St.Patrick and His Place in History is a concise but comprehensive biography of the famous saint.