And the Pope and the Church in the East and at home were excommunicating the Saxons on that account, and they did not pay any attention or heed unto that, &c.

And I am not certain whether it was not in the year preceding the above [A.D.

1537] that these relics were burned." St.Patrick visited Rome about the year 431, accompanied by a priest named Segetius, who was sent with him by St.Germanus to vouch for the sanctity of his character, and his fitness for the Irish mission.
Celestine received him favourably, and dismissed him with his benediction and approbation.

St.Patrick then returned once more to his master, who was residing at Auxerre.

From thence he went into the north of Gaul, and there receiving intelligence of the death of St.Palladius, and the failure of his mission, he was immediately consecrated bishop by the venerable Amato, a prelate of great sanctity, then residing in the neighbourhood of Ebovia.