Life of Saint Patrick by Jocelin - Introduction

Life and Acts of Saint Patrick by Jocelin is an excerpt from The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick by Various Edited by James O'Leary. This is from the fith edition published in New York in 1880 by P. J. KENEDY, No. 5 BARCLAY STREET.
1880. The excerpt is republished here in sections. Go to Part 1 Life of St. Patrick by Jocelin.
The following is a Timeline of the Life of Saint Patrick published at the end of the book edited by James O'Leary.
A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE TO THE LIVES OF ST. PATRICK. A.D.
1. St. Patrick was born in North Britain, near the Clyde, or thereabouts.
2. In the sixteenth year of his age he and Lupita, his sister, were made captive by Scotch marauders, and, being led into Ireland, were sold to Milcho in Dalaradia, now Ulster,
3. After six years' captivity, and being twenty-one years old, he returns to his home in Britain,
4. After three months he went to Aremorica with his parents, and was taken by the Picts two months into captivity. He was taken captive a third time, and taken to Bordeaux, where he was set at liberty,
5. Passing thence to Tours, he became a monk in the Monastery of St. Martin, and after four years of monastic life returned to the Island of Temar, which is supposed to be the same as Ireland,
6. St. Patrick was called by visions into Gaul, and proceeded into Italy,
7. According to the customs of monks at that time, he spent seven years in wanderings over mountains and through islands, and, obeying the admonition of an angel, was ordained priest by Bishop S. Senior,
8. Having studied three years, St. Patrick is called by visions into Ireland to preach the Gospel,
9. St. Patrick, through love of solitude, returns into Britain to Valle Rosina,
10. Being received at Antissiodorum by St. Amator, A.D. 414, he remains there four years, and passes to St. Germanus in the forty-second year of his age,
11. Having spent nearly four years with St. Germanus, St. Patrick departed for the Isle of Lerina,
12. St. Patrick spent nine years in the Island of Lerina, opposite Norbonne, and, knowing that the time for his mission to Ireland was at hand, returned to Germanus at Aries, now Orleans,
13. Palladius returned from Ireland, his mission having failed,
14. St. Patrick is sent by St. Celestine in Ireland,
15. Being consecrated bishop by the Bishop of Tours, he bids farewell to St. Germanus in passing through Gaul, and, having landed on the shore of Leinster, baptizes Sinellum in the autumn of the same year,
16. St. Patrick proceeds to Ulster, preaches the faith to Milcho, and makes many converts,
17. St. Patrick preaches to King Leary at Tara,
18. St. Patrick returned to Rome, and sent St. Kranie and his five companions to preach the Gospel,
19. St. Patrick gives St. Bridget the veil in the fourteenth year of her age,
20. Armagh is made a metropolitan see, and councils are celebrated,
21. St. Patrick again visits Rome, probably for the confirmation of his council,
22. St. Patrick dies, the eighty-second year of his age, at Down, attended by St. Bridget, who had, he was conscious, foreknown the time of his death,
  Some chronologies extend the life of St. Patrick by forty or forty-five years.  
23. The Confession of St. Patrick was written,
24. The Epistle to Coroticus,
25. The Metrical Life of St. Patrick by St. Fiech,
26. The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick by St. McEvin,
27. The Life of St. Patrick by Jocelyn,