Brand New! Afacts Tract (100/pack): The Amazing Truth About St. Patrick a Sabbath Keeper

Topic: Sabbath

Packets of 100 for only $9.95.

Amazing Facts Tracts stand out from the crowd.

• Larger size to grab attention (but still fits in your pocket)
• Free link to a magazine, book, or video download
• Easy to read type
• Covers key Bible teachings
• Connects to free Bible study guides
• Use with evangelism tracking database
• Nurture leads with follow-up emails on the tract topic

Equip yourself, your members, your personal ministries team, and your outreach events with these colorful, inexpensive, eye-catching tracts that can be spread out like the leaves of autumn.

Each topic introduces a central Bible topic and then links the reader to free Bible studies and a free resource that can be downloaded simply by sending a text message. Watch for more popular topics coming soon!

Sample of Text on tract: 

Did you know that the first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in the United States—not Ireland? Irish immigrants began celebrating the holiday in New York City in 1762. Today, more than 150,000 people participate in the city’s parade—with over 2 million spectators!

Do you know the truth about the real St. Patrick?

His birth name was Maewyn Succat, and he was born around AD 390. According to many scholars, he was kidnapped at the age of 16 and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he later converted to Christianity during a night of frightening storms. 

After six years in captivity, he escaped and returned to his homeland—yet, amazingly, Maewyn soon felt called to return to the land of his enslavement, but this time he went as a missionary. For the rest of his life, he shared his faith in Jesus across Ireland.

It is believed that Maewyn established some 350 churches and led more than 120,000 people to Christ. How did he come to be known as Patrick? The name comes from the Latin word for “nobleman” and is thought to have been given to him years after his death in honor of his missionary work to the Emerald Isle. 

Myths and Legends 

Many stories about Patrick are more fiction than fact, often invented hundreds of years after he died. For instance, it’s believed by many that he taught the Irish about the Trinity using a shamrock, but this legend first appeared nearly 1,300 years after his death.

You’ve probably heard that Ireland is a country without any snakes. Well, folklore says that Patrick was the one who drove them off the island—but the earliest telling of this story was written some 800 years after his death.

However, perhaps the biggest myth about Patrick’s life is that he was Roman Catholic. While he was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church over a thousand years after he died, Patrick is well-known by historians to have been a Celtic Christian—so why does this myth persist in popular culture today? 

St. Patrick’s Peculiar Belief

For years, Patrick led a band of like-minded believers across Ireland, establishing churches that glorified the kingdom of God by expressing their faith through loving obedience. And there is good reason to believe that one commandment particularly honored by Patrick and the Celtic Church is worshiping on the seventh-day Sabbath, found in Exodus 20: 

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. … For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it (vv. 8, 11).

For instance, some 500 years after Patrick’s death, Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scotland, was attempting to bring all of Scotland in line with her church’s tradition of Sunday worship. She was frustrated that many in her nation maintained “the traditional usage of the ancient Irish Church, which observed Saturday instead of Sunday as the day of rest.”