| Saint Patrick's Day! |
| As you may (or may not) know, I am VERY Irish. Saint Patty's day is a time where everyone gets together, and celebrates being Irish. All you people probibly just celebrate it because you like the parade, but there IS more to it. Here it goes! The birth place of Saint Patric is unknown, and so are many other things, but it is known that when Patrick was sixteen, he was kidnaped by Irish Maruders. He worked as a shepard, on the slopes of Slemish moutain in the country Antrim. Even while captive in a pagan land, he still prayed to the Christian god, and was rewarded by a visit by an angel. The angel came to him in a dream and told him to seek his birth land. To get there, he traveled about 200 miles on foot to the Irish sea, where he was given passage on a boat. He settled in France. There, he spent 20 years of his life being a monk, untill the angel apperared to him again. This time, it told him to go back to the land where he had been enslaved. Before he left, he went to Rome, where the pope made him a Bishop. IN 432, Patrick and 24 followers arrived in Ireland. In the spring, he decided to ask the king for permission to try and convert the people of Ireland to chritianity. Patrick plucked a shamrock from the ground and told the king that the Christian god had three persons, father, son, and holy ghost. The king was impressed, and said that it was okay for his people to be Christian. Christianity was a BIG sucsess in Ireland, and many accepted it. Saint Patrick is also rumored to have "driven the snakes" out of ireland, but in this, the snakes mean the pagans. *sigh* i guess just not all people are as well educated on their heritage as me, jkjkjkjkjk. .::Me::.. .::My Irish self::. .::and I::. |