Saint Patrick’s Day
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day Everyone! Here’s some interesting and fun stuff about this awesome holiday!
- A 5th century Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland, Saint Patrick was known as the Apostle of Ireland and remains the primary patron saint to this day.
- The story goes that at 16 he was captured and taken as a slave to Ireland. He escaped 6 years later and returned home to his family. He came back to the island as part of the clergy and served as an ordained bishop.
- The date we celebrate as a religious and cultural holiday, March 17th, is the date of his death. Today in Ireland the holiday is observed as a solemnity; and a holy day, it is also a celebration of Ireland itself.
- Folklore tells us that Saint Patrick used the three leaves of the shamrock to explain the Christian holy trinity; the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
- Another common myth is that Saint Patrick banished snakes from Ireland. There are no snakes on the island, but there never were any.
- Chicago began dying a portion of the Chicago River green in 1962 as a show of solidarity.
- On Saint Patrick’s Day more than 13 million pints of Guinness, the famous Irish stout beer, are consumed around the world.
Saint Patrick’s Day Quotes
St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time – a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic. ~Adrienne Cook
You’ve heard I suppose, long ago,
How the snakes, in a manner most antic,
He marched to the county Mayo,
And trundled them into th’ Atlantic
~William Maginn
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec
Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick’s Day consists of the night of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the morning of the eighteenth. ~Author Unknown
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
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