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Groundhog Day is behind us. Easter is around the corner. And in the middle is a holiday associated with merry drinking and a centuries-old religious figure: St. Patrick's Day. Monday, March 17, is Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 09:39, 18 March 2015: 4,896 × 3,672 (6.67 MB): Ardfern {{Information |Description ={{en|1=Within 40 minutes of the St Patrick's Day Parade leaving Belfast City Hall, Loyalist flag protesters appear at the same City Hall. St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17 all over Ireland and everywhere in the world where Irish people or their descendants live. New York City has one of the biggest parades. It is a very Irish festival, and it involves a lot of feasting and celebration, including traditional Irish music , drinking beer , and eating bacon and cabbage . Saint Patrick’s Day, feast day (March 17) of St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. People of that country celebrate the day with religious services and feasts, but Saint Patrick’s Day has transformed into a largely secular holiday of revelry in other parts of the world. St. Patrick’s Day is a global celebration of Irish culture that takes place annually on March 17, the anniversary of the patron saint of Ireland's death in the fifth century. The holiday has This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 March 2025. Cultural and religious celebration on 17 March For other uses, see Saint Patrick's Day (disambiguation). Saint Patrick's Day Saint Patrick depicted in a stained-glass window at Saint Benin's Church, Ireland Official name Saint Patrick's Day Also called Feast of Saint Patrick Lá Fhéile The north White House fountain. The public fountains at the White House have been dyed green for Saint Patrick's Day annually since 2009. [1]Saint Patrick's Day, although a legal holiday only in Savannah, Georgia, [2] and Suffolk County, Massachusetts, [3] is nonetheless widely recognized and celebrated throughout the United States. Saint Patrick's Day in Buenos Aires . Saint Patrick (about 402 - March 17, probably 491 or 493) is the patron saint of Ireland. [2] [3] [4] He was born in a village in Roman Britain. Saint Patrick came from a Christian family. He was the son of Calpornius, who was a deacon. This page was last edited on 25 October 2023, at 20:55 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply. View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirect page. Redirect to: Saint Patrick's Day; Shamrocks, Harps, and Shillelaghs: The Story of the St. Patrick's Day Symbols. Clarion Books, 2001. ISBN 978-0618096497; Crimmins, John Daniel. St. Patrick's Day: Its Celebration In New York And Other American Places, 1737-1845. Palala Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1343316799; Cronin, Mike, and Daryl Adair. The Wearing of the Green: A History of St What is the story of St. Patrick's Day? St. Patrick's Day was originally a religious observance in Ireland, his Feast Day, honoring the day of his death. Irish immigrants brought the observance to the United States in the 19th century where it has since become St. Patrick's Day, honoring Irish culture and heritage. St. Patrick's Cathedral In the 5th century St. Patrick established his principal church in Ireland on the hill fort site of Ard Macha (Armagh). Present-day Armagh city and district (historical County Armagh) in Northern Ireland is home to St. Patrick's Cathedral (Church of Ireland). (more) His followers adopted the custom of wearing a shamrock on his feast day. The St. Patrick’s Day custom came to America in 1737, the first year St. Patrick’s Day was publicly celebrated, in Boston, Mass. Today, people celebrate the day with parades, wearing green (Saint Patrick’s Day. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Guinness sees a surge in U.S. popularity ahead of St. Patrick's Day 06:48. While St. Patrick's Day celebrations often produce images of T-shirts donning "Kiss me, I'm Irish," leprechaun hats and Stone found below St. Patrick's Well. St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. Other places named after Saint Patrick include: Patrickswell Lane, a well in Drogheda Town where St. Patrick opened a monastery and baptised the townspeople. Ardpatrick, County Limerick (from Irish Ard Pádraig, meaning 'high place of Patrick') [144] [failed Saint Patrick's Day is the feast day of St Patrick. It is the day of St Patrick's death, and commemorates the arrival of Christianity in Ireland. The day is observed by the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Church, and people of Irish descent around the world. Saint Patrick [edit | edit source] St. PatrickBorn c. 396 Died c. 459 Roman-Irish saint P atron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick remains one of the Middle Ages' most well-known saints, thanks in large part to the wild celebrations on his festival day on March 17. The parade is coordinated via a non-profit organisation, The St Patrick’s Day Parade Inc., which is a registered charity in New York. [9] The charity is overseen by a board of directors which, as of 2023, included Sean Lane as chairperson, Ryan Hanlon as vice chairman, Thomas Smyth as president and Hilary Beirne as chief administrative History. Saint Patrick's feast day, as a kind of national day, was already being celebrated by the Irish in Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries. [58] Saint Patrick's feast day was finally placed on the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church in the early 1600s, due to the influence of Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding. [59]
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