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Saint Patrick's Breastplate is an Old Irish prayer of protection of the "lorica" type attributed to Saint Patrick.
Its title is given as Faeth Fiada in the 11th-century Liber Hymnorum that records the text. This has been interpreted as the "Deer's Cry" by Middle Irish popular etymology, but it is more likely a term for a "spell of concealment". It is also known by its incipit atomruig indiu, or "I bind unto myself today".
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