Liverpool’s later trade in salt is a useful fact here as you need a lot of pinches with that particular story. It also says that St Patrick preached in Liverpool before his kidnapping, on the site where St Patrick’s cross later stood in the Town centre. This would have been a challenge, even for a Saint’s who’s powers included repelling snakes out of a country, as the Liverpool settlement he supposedly preached in didn’t exist for another seven hundred years.
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