Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

Caroline must have learned about St Patrick’s Day in school. She has been asking everyday when “Patrick’s Day was going to be. We started the day by going to church. We learned a little bit about St Patrick so I thought I would share it. If you are like me you probably do not know much about St Patrick.

When he was about 16, he was captured from his home and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. After becoming a cleric, he returned to northern and western Ireland as an ordained bishop, but little is known about the places where he worked. By the seventh century, he had already come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland.

Saint Patrick's Day is observed on March 17, the date of his death It is celebrated both inside and outside Ireland, as both a religious and, especially outside Ireland, secular holiday. In the dioceses of Ireland, it is both a solemnity and a Holy day of obligation; outside Ireland, it can be a celebration of Ireland itself.