Boulogne-Sur-Mer

St Patrick’s birthplace has been claimed by Ireland, Wales, Scotland—and a town on the French coast. Could the Apostle of Ireland have first seen the light in ancient Bononia, now Boulogne-sur-Mer?

In 1907, William Canon Fleming takes up a question clouded by centuries of conflicting accounts: where did Patrick begin his life? He follows the trail through old Irish lives, local traditions and ancient place-names, making the case for Armorica and its seaport of Bononia. The debate reaches beyond a town’s claim to distinction; it touches the early story of the man who would become Ireland’s great apostle. What clues in Patrick’s own world point back to Boulogne?

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