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					Originally Posted by ottopilot
					
				 
				I wonder if most know that Maewyn Succat was a slave captured from Britain.  Not really Irish at all. 
			
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 I'm pretty sure most in Ireland would know.
He escaped from slavery, and then returned to Ireland after his religious education.  His time as a slave let him learn the language/customs and then he spent 30 years converting the Irish.