A bit about St. Patrick

It's March and we’ll be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.  My mind turns to thoughts of the enchanted green isle full of misty glens, fields of shamrock, rugged cliffs and towering castles.  St Patrick’s Day is magical and I thought it might be fun to share a few facts about St Patrick and just how it came to be that we celebrate a holiday in his honor.

So who was St Patrick?

 There are many legends associated with Saint Patrick.  It is said that he drove all the venomous snakes out of Ireland and into the sea where they drowned.  This has now become fact even though no one knows if it’s actually true.  It is speculated this is a metaphor for converting all the pagans to Christianity because the pagan symbol was the snake.

St. Patrick was born in the latter half of the fourth century to a wealthy family in England ; his father was a Roman in the British army.  His given name was Maewyn but he went by the name Patricius, which was later changed to Patrick.  He became the Patron Saint of Ireland because of all the work he did there as a missionary in the fifth century.  Sadly most of the facts about his life remain a mystery, but I will share a little of what we do know of his life and the legends associated with him.

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