Does Japan, Mexico, and Canda celebrate it, if so do they all do the green thing?
2007-03-04 22:17:07 · 11 answers · asked by dorthix 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ St. Patrick's Day
He drove all the snakes out of Ireland, I'm sure there is a website for the really really interested person.
The potato famine was in the year 1842, and Saint Patrick was a saint longggggg before that.
WAKE UP ALL YOU POTATO freaks. There were no potatos in Europe until they were brought back from Peru and Equador after 1528 AD. Forget that potato story now!
2007-03-04 22:19:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
St. Patrick died on March 17, around 492. he drove the snakes from Ireland which saved the potato crop and saved the poor from famine. But mainly, people today honor Irish heritage and its rich culture and traditions. Cities all over the U.S. celebrate with St. Patrick's Day parades and festivities. The most famous of these annual festival traditions includes the Boston St. Patricks's parade, with its first parade in 1737; the New York City St. patricks' Day parade, which began in 1762; and the Savannah, Georgia, St. Patrick's Day parade which started in 1812. What do you do to honor Irish tradition? Wear green? Look for four-leaf clovers? Sing Irish songs?
Lot's more info about ST. Pat's day in America here http://www.familiesonlinemagazine.com/irishinamerica.html
2007-03-05 03:54:34 · answer #2 · answered by Geraldine J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-05 06:30:51 · answer #3 · answered by coratello 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius[2], Irish: Naomh Pádraig) was a Christian missionary and is regarded as the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba. Patrick was born in Britain. When he was about sixteen he was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. He entered the church, as his father and grandfather had before him, becoming a deacon and a bishop. He later returned to Ireland as a missionary, working in the north and west of the island, and by using Monasteries as the center for his missionary work had great success in the conversion of Ireland. By the seventh century he had become a patron saint of Ireland, and the foundations of Irish Christianity were attributed largely to him.
March 17, popularly known as St. Patrick's Day, is believed to be his death date (according to the Encyclopedia Britannica) and is the date celebrated as his feast day. The day became a feast day in the universal church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding, a member of the commission for the reform of the Breviary [26] in the early part of the 17th century.
For most of Christianity's first thousand years, canonisations were done on the diocesan or regional level. Relatively soon after the death of people considered to be very holy people, the local Church affirmed that they could be liturgically celebrated as saints. As a result, St. Patrick has never been formally canonised by a Pope, but he is still widely venerated in Ireland and elsewhere today.
St. Patrick is also venerated in the Orthodox Church, especially among English-speaking Orthodox Christians living in the United Kingdom and Ireland and in North America. There are even Orthodox icons dedicated to him.
2007-03-04 22:20:14 · answer #4 · answered by :( 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was a British boy captured by Irish prodesnents way back when and he was sold as a slave to a farmer....he was a shepard..and he brought christianity to Ireland
the reason why they celebrate it in other countrys is because the have irish ancestors from the famine
2007-03-06 10:56:44 · answer #5 · answered by nikki! <3RDJ<3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
St. Patrick was the patron saint of beer.
2007-03-05 00:51:02 · answer #6 · answered by smartgirl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it comes from Ireland. St. Patrick supposedly saved the starving people during a potato famine.
at the very least, i know i like my beer dyed green!
2007-03-04 22:19:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
he was born in scotland in 387. When he was16 he was captured by the Irish and sold as a slave. He helped convert many people to christianity. He's the reason why we have the three leaf clover: FATHER, SON HOLY SPIRIT.
2007-03-05 09:55:05 · answer #8 · answered by babygirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is some little midget green guy who likes to run around on a certain green day and give every little child in the world some candy. =) lol. Simple as that.
2007-03-04 22:20:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because he drove all the snakes out of Ireland and they never returned. Wish he was here in America today so we could send him to Congress.
2007-03-08 19:42:17 · answer #10 · answered by Joyce D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋