The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland has urged Irish people and those of Irish descent celebrating St Patrick’s Day to remember the plight of migrants.
Archbishop Eamon Martin — St Patrick’s modern-day successor as archbishop of Armagh — used his message for today's feast to recall that St Patrick was first brought to Ireland as a slave by traffickers.
The archbishop said that “as Irish people, we cannot think of Patrick without acknowledging the enormous humanitarian and pastoral challenges facing growing numbers of people who find themselves displaced and without status in our world.”
