1. Patrick Madrid's books have sold over one million copies, including foreign-language editions.
11 Facts About Patrick Madrid
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Patrick Madrid worked for eight years at Catholic Answers, serving as vice president.
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Patrick Madrid has published numerous articles on Scripture, Church history, patristics, apologetics, and evangelization in various Catholic and Protestant periodicals and has contributed scholarly articles on apologetics in the New Catholic Encyclopedia.
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Patrick Madrid was born on November 8,1960, in Lynwood, California, a near suburb of Los Angeles.
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Patrick Madrid is the oldest of their eight children, one of whom died shortly after birth of pulmonary complications.
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Patrick Madrid has conducted thousands of apologetics seminars in English and Spanish at parishes, conferences, and universities across the United States, as well as throughout Europe, Canada, in Latin America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel.
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Patrick Madrid has engaged in at least a dozen formal public debates with Protestant, Mormon, and other non-Catholic spokesmen.
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Patrick Madrid founded what is known as the Envoy institute in 1996 with the launch of Envoy Magazine, which reached a peak circulation of approximately 12,000 paid subscribers.
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Patrick Madrid did graduate studies in theology at the University of Dallas.
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Patrick Madrid has taught undergraduate courses on apologetics and the sacraments as an adjunct professor on the theology faculty at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
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Patrick Madrid currently serves as an adjunct professor of apologetics at Holy Apostles College and Seminary and at Saint Patrick's Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California.