This chapter makes use of the extensive collection of papers left by Ernest Bateman to explores aspects of the Irish Protestant minority's identity in the inter-war period. It focuses on how Bateman perceived and represented Patrick - the quintessential Irish 'saint' - and explores the implications of his Patrician model for the Protestant sense of Irish identity, at a stage when the minority was still trying to come to terms with being demoted from their long-held elite status, to what they regarded as second-class citizenship with a precarious belonging.