“In the year 445 AD St Patrick came to Armagh and he wished to build ... lamps and torches to the other hill, to the Roman Catholic Cathedral which also bears the name of St Patrick.

St Patrick’s Day celebrations will start at dawn ... stands Saint Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, making Armagh the only city in the world with two cathedrals bearing his name.

But what Armagh doesn’t have in the seventh century is a tomb or the body of St. Patrick.” The Mourne granite slab marking the traditional burial place of St. Patrick at the Cathedral Church ...

This fact is graphically illustrated today by Armagh’s two St. Patrick’s Cathedrals, one Protestant and the other Catholic ... town named in his honor, the cathedral churchyard reveals ...

We don't know how tall St. Patrick was, but we do know the statue of Ireland's national saint at Slieve Patrick is the world's tallest of its kind. Verena Wolff/dpa ...