From THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. PATRICK
"But after I came to Ireland -- every day I had to tend sheep, and many times a day I prayed -- the love of God and His fear came to me more and more, and my faith was strengthened.
And my spirit was moved so that in a single day I would say as many as a hundred prayers, and almost as many in the night, and this even when I was staying in the woods and on the mountains; and I used to get up for prayer before daylight, through snow, through frost, through rain ...
... There the Lord opened the sense of my unbelief that I might at last remember my sins and be converted with all my heart to the Lord my God who ... comforted me as would a father his son."
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