Subject: [IRELAND] St. Patrick's Breastplate In the American Episcopal Church hymnal is found the translation of this prayer attributed to St. Patrick (372-466). The music is an adaptation of an Irish melody by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) The translation of the text is by Cecil Francis Alexander (1818-1895) The hymn is of the Holy Trinity thematically and is traditionally sung on Trinity Sunday (the Sunday after Pentecost. "I bind unto myself today the strong Name of the Trinity, by invocation of the same, the Three in One and One in Three" is the first of seven verses. It is a beautiful and spiritually moving hymn but I do not know how true the translation is to the actual Irish prayer of St. Patrick