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![]() By: Juan Garcia Sources: https://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day/history-of-st-patricks-day We all know about St. Patrick’s Day, where we observe the death of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. The holiday has evolved into a celebration of Irish culture with parades, special foods, music, dancing, drinking and of course, a bunch of green. During St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, roughly 26.1 billion pounds of beef and 2.3 billion pounds of cabbage were produced in the United States. There are 32.2 million U.S.residents with Irish ancestry, according to a census in 2016. St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated every year on March 17, the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have celebrated this day as a religious holiday for over 1,000 years. It falls during the Christian season of Lend, Irish families would attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. People would go against Lenten prohibitions, against the consumption of meat and would dance, drink and feast-on the traditional meal which consisted of Irish bacon and cabbage. Saint Patrick, who lived during the fifth century, is the patron saint and national apostle of Ireland. He was born in Roman Britain but kidnapped and brought to Ireland as a slave when he was 16. He later escaped, but returned to Ireland and was credited with bringing Christianity to its people. In the centuries following Patrick’s death (believed to be on March 17, 461), the stories about his life became more ingrained into Irish culture: One of the most well-known legends is that he explained the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit) by using the three leaves of a native Irish clover, the shamrock. These have been a few paragraph describing the origins of St. Patrick's day, where we celebrate the patron saint Patrick who brought christianity to Ireland, and how its traditions have changed throughout history starting in the fifth century to today.
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