Joe Scarborough: “I want to talk about St. Patrick. We are coming up on St. Patrick's Day, and though many people celebrate it in this…”

“I want to talk about St. Patrick. We are coming up on St. Patrick's Day, and though many people celebrate it in this country, few in America understand or recognize the significance of St. Patrick in the history of western civilization. In fact, I have been reading a book called ``How The Irish Saved Civilization,'' and it lays out wonderfully the story of St. Patrick who, at the age of 16, was a member of a British family in the fourth century and was also a member of the Roman Empire. Late one night he was actually kidnapped by Irish barbarians and sold into the slave trade in the fourth century, and from the age of 16 to the age of 22 he stayed out in the cold and the rain as a shepherd. He was poorly clothed, he was not fed well at all, and in fact he spent his evenings nearly freezing to death in barns along with the other slaves. In the middle of the night, of one of his nights in his 22d year, God came to him in a vision and told him to go south, a ship would be waiting for him.”