The patron saint of Ireland was a bishop and a great missionary who fought against slavery.
In the Letter to the soldiers of Coroticusthe saint intended to shame the 5th century general, denouncing how his soldiers killed, captured and martyred Christians.
In the text, Saint Patrick denounced that the soldiers “distributed themselves to the defenseless baptized women as prizes,” and stated that he did not know what saddened him more: the dead, the captured, or the enslavers themselves, “those whom the devil had trapped.” so deeply.”
The saint especially identified with the captives, because in the letter he confessed that Irish raiders had enslaved him and also massacred those who worked as servants in his father’s house. During his captivity, Saint Patrick spent six years tending sheep for his master.