The History of St Patrick’s Day

     Hello and welcome back to my lovely blog! Sorry for not posting yesterday, but I do have a reason for that. I decided to post today instead because it’s St. Patrick's Day. With that in mind, today I am going to do a St.Patrick's Day special.

     St. Patrick's Day is a tradition that started in Ireland in the early seventeenth century when a man named Maewyn Succet was captured and taken to Ireland at age sixteen. In his imprisonment, he believed he was captured because of his lack of faith, so he spent lots of time in prayer. Six years later, at age twenty-two, Succet escaped from Ireland to go back to his home country, Great Britain, because of a vision he had. 

Once St. Patrick had returned to Great Britain, he kept having a dream to go back to Ireland to tell the people about God. Before returning back to Ireland, he spent twelve years in France because he did not feel ready to be a missionary. When he did finally make it back to Ireland, he was a priest. Over the course of twenty years, he traveled and baptized people all over Ireland. On March seventeenth 461 or 493 (the exact date is unknown), St. Patrick died. Ever since then the Irish people have celebrated with a feast every year on March seventeenth.

     Now St. Patrick's day is celebrated differently all around the world. Some of the things people do are celebrate with parades, dye lakes and rivers green, wear lots of green, and many other things.

      Even though there might be different ways people celebrate around the world and other myths such as leprechauns have been brought into this holiday, one thing is for sure. We are all celebrating the same thing, Christianity being spread throughout Ireland. I hope you had fun learning about the history of St. Patrick's day! Goodbye and happy St. Patrick's day!