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What is St.Patick’s Day?
A cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March. Saint Patrick’s Day was made an official Christian feast day in the early 17th century and is observed by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion (especially the Church of Ireland),[7] the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Lutheran Church
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St. Patrick was born in Britain—not Ireland—to wealthy parents near the end of the fourth century. He is believed to have died on March 17, around 460 A.D. Although his father was a Christian deacon, it has been suggested that he probably took on the role because of tax incentives and there is no evidence that Patrick came from a particularly religious family.
Who Was St. Patrick?
BORN: circa 386 A.D.
DIED: circa 461 A.D. in Saul, Ireland
BIRTHPLACE: Britain
FEAST DAY: March 17
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Slemish Mountain, County Antrim
The story of St Patrick is a story of endurance. When he was just a teenager, St Patrick (then just Patrick) was captured in Wales and brought to the island to work as a slave herding sheep on Slemish Mountain, County Antrim.
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…in Ireland. He spent six bleak years as a herdsman, during which he turned with fervour to his faith. Upon dreaming that the ship in which he was to escape was ready, he fled his master and found passage to Britain. There he came near to starvation and suffered a second brief captivity before he was reunited with his family. Thereafter, he may have paid a short visit to the Continent.
St. Patrick
bishop and patron saint of Ireland
St Patrick’s Day at Slemish
Friday 17 March 2023
Slemish Mountain
But it was also here that Patrick found consolation in God. Today, you can walk the 1.2 mile trail up to the summit of Slemish, and look out on to the landscapes that inspired the saint himself.
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Great food, great Guinness, great music and entertainment all in a splendid marquee on the banks of the Claren River which flows through the village of Clarenbridge on the edge of Galway Bay.
Clarinbridge
After being reunited with his family back in England, Patrick returned to France, this time Auxerre, where he entered the priesthood under the leadership of St Germain.
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The excellent Glendaough VIsitor Centre provides regular exhibitions, informative guided tours of the monastic site as well as an audio-visual show about the rich heritage of the area. Elsewhere around the upper and lower lakes there are a number of well-known walking routes, which allow visitors to take in as much or as little of the surrounding scenery as they wish. Once the monastic capital of Europe, Glendolough attracts up to 600,000 visitors annually
.A guide I received from Irish Tourism: My Personal Itinerary
and yes I visited here once with a small group tour (I was alone having lost my hubby and needing to get away a bit–a few of us from that tour went on to Scotland where we hooked up with another tour–same company) and the other time—when I got this guide when there were four of us and my friend drove (I drove in the UK our first stop—we were doing a research project on how the same holy place can remain holy despite the change of the religion for her master’s project) and we saw all manner of Ireland—-we so enjoyed it.
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Around the year 431, St Patrick was sent back to Ireland on the instruction of Pope St Celestine I with the aim of introducing Christianity to the country, something he had vowed to do since his days in captivity. He initially aimed for the coast of Antrim but strong currents swept his boat through Strangford Lough and he landed in County Down instead.
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What is Clonmacnoise famous for?
In Ireland the monastery of Clonmacnoise by the River Shannon (County Offaly) was founded by the Irish monk and wandering bishop St. Ciaran from the Aran Island and a first church built in 595. Endowments and the abbey’s good location on trading routes enabled new churches and other buildings to be almost constantly added.
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The three-leaf clover, a type of trefoil plant, has been considered the unofficial national flower of Ireland for centuries. Irish legend says that Saint Patrick used the shamrock as an educational symbol to explain the Holy Trinity to nonbelievers as he converted the Irish to Christianity in the fourth century. This folklore solidified in the public conscience in the centuries after Patrick’s death (which is presumed to have happened on March 17). Around the 17th century, Cronin says, the shamrock’s importance began to converge with religious celebration of the saint’s feast day: Those living in poverty still wanted to look nice at church, and luckily for them, an appropriate adornment was growing on the ground outside their homes.
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St. Patrick’s Day Parades in Wicklow – 2023
The Bray: St. Patrick’s Day Parade will kick off at 2pm from the Town Hall finishing at the northern part of the Seafront
Wicklow Town‘s Parade gets under way from Station Road at 3.15pm
The Greystones St. Patrick’s Day Parade will commence at 11am
Arklow‘s Parade will start at 2pm
The Newtownmountkennedy St Patrick’s Parade kicks off at 11.30am from Gregory’s Garage
The Rathdrum parade starts at noon from Avon Motors
County Wicklow and Saint Patrick
Why did we stop wearing blue on St. Patrick’s Day?
Even though it’s less common today, blue has always been one of the St. Patrick’s Day colors. Early depictions of St. Patrick show him wearing blue, and the official color of the Order of St. Patrick, part of Ireland’s chivalry, was a sky blue known as “St. Patrick’s Blue.” The blue symbolism dates back to early Irish mythology, as Flaitheas Éireann, the symbol of Irish sovereignty (think Uncle Sam), was depicted with a woman in a blue dress. The first official association with the color blue was when Henry VIII took the throne and declared himself King of Ireland, making it part of England.
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How did Saint Patrick die?
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Saint Patrick died on Mar. 17 in 461 AD, giving rise to a legend that would continue to draw tourists to the Emerald Isle in modern times
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The modern St. Patrick’s Day festival can trace its origins back to New York in 1762 when Irish soldiers serving in the British military marched through the city to commemorate the holy day, giving rise to one of the most famous parades in the world.
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