1. ST PATRICK'S DAY

3. It is celebrated by Irish people, but it is also celebrated in many countries.

4. People wear green clothes, eat Irish food, drink Irish beer and go to parades.

6. St. Patrick was born in 385 AD in Wales.

7. At 16, some pirates captured and sold him into slavery to a sheep farmer. He escaped when he was 22 and spent the next 12 years in a monastery. At 30 he went to Ireland as a Christian missionary.

8. He died at Saul on the 17 th of March in 461 AD and is buried at Downpatrick.

10. Shamrocks

11. Snakes

12. Green colour

13. The Celtic Cross

14. Leprechauns

16. Patrick used the three-leaved shamrock to explain how the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit could exist as separate parts of the same being. His followers wore a shamrock in celebration.

17. This day people wear shamrocks when they celebrate.

19. Serpent symbols were common in Celtic peoples.

20. Driving the snakes from Ireland is a symbol of putting an end to the pagan practice.

22. Green is the color of spring, the shamrock, and is connected with hope and nature.

23. Ireland is often called the "Emerald Isle" because its landscape is very green.

25. St Patrick combined the cross with the sun to give pagans an idea of the importance of the cross.

27. Leprechauns are very unfriendly. They live alone and pass the time by mending the shoes of Irish fairies.

28. The fairies pay the leprechauns for their work with golden coins, which the "little people" collect in large pots.

30. They eat Irish bacon and cabbage and they drink black beer.

31. Some rivers are dyed green.

32. There are parades in many Irish cities and towns, but there are very big parades in many American cities, too.

34. Today, many people go out to see the parade where you can find many customs, Irish music with bagpipes, soldiers, Irish flags..., Irish culture.

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40. www.st-patricks-day.com/about_saintpatrick.html

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