HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY EVERYONE!!!

Good morning, afternoon, evening, tomorrow, whatever, wherever you are!

I absolutely adore the minor holidays! Not all of them, but ones like St. Patty's Day that have actual forgotten significance. They are taken for granted and underrated from their original celebration.

This holiday has especially become quite tainted, with alcohol and leprechauns and pots o' gold.

Saint Patrick was born in Briton. According to the Confessio of Patrick, when he was about 16, he was captured by Irish pirates from his home in Britain, 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 claimed to have a dream telling him to go and minister to the Irish. He returned to northern and western Ireland and was a missionary there, converting thousands.

It is said that he illustrated the trinity by using a shamrock-or leaf of clover.

The three leaves are individual but together make one shamrock.

This may or may not be true, but if you're wondering why shamrocks were ever associated with today, now you have an idea.

For some more background here are two excellent articles debunking some myths:

Who Was St. Patrick?

(Thank you Mrs. Pac)
The Real Saint Patrick
(Thanks Mrs. Shelley)

Sorry to my friends Sylvia and Cheryl for pinching you early...

Hope you're all wearing green! *Virtual pinch*

Can't pinch me, I'm Irish. And wearing green.

Colossions 1: 13-14

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.