St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17th each year to honor St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. Some of the symbols of St. Patrick's Day include shamrocks, leprechauns, four-leaved clovers, and the color green. Traditions include dyeing the Chicago River green, wearing green clothing or accessories, parades, and finding four-leaf clovers or pots of gold guarded by leprechauns. The holiday is celebrated globally with many famous landmarks being lit up in green.

1. Saint Patrick’s Day
CEIP Marqués del Arco. March 2015

2. St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.
He was born in the fourth century and is famous
for bringing Christianity into Ireland.
It is on the 17th of March.

3. The Saint Patrick’s Day parade in New York is one
of the biggest parades in the world.
St. Patrick’s Day is a very well known Irish national
holiday, which is celebrated not only in Ireland but
all around the world.

4. The colour green is symbolic on this
special day. Other symbols associated with
Saint Patrick’s Day include rainbows with
pots of gold, shamrocks, leprechauns, and
four-leaved clovers.

5. Chicago River dyed green in
annual St. Patrick’s Day tradition
In 1962, while the city's pollution control workers were trying
to identify trace sewage in the river using various chemicals,
they dyed the river green. This accidental coincidence
became the inspiration for a peculiar Chicago tradition.

6. •You are lucky if you find a four-leaved
clover.
•Legend says that St. Patrick used the
shamrock to visually illustrate the concept
of the Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit)

7. Leprechauns are little Irish fairies, and they
work as shoe-makers for other fairies. The Irish say
that if a leprechaun is caught by a human, he will
reveal where he hides his pot of gold. On this day,
pictures of shamrocks and leprechauns are hung
everywhere. Some people even dress up as
leprechauns complete with their big green hats.
A popular belief is that you may
find a leprechaun and his pot of
gold at the end of a rainbow.

8. St Patrick's Day is traditionally a day of
dancing, drinking and feasting in honor of
St Patrick.
Transform
yourself into the
flag of Ireland!

9. Celebrations around the world

11. World goes green for St. Patrick’s Day!!!
The Empire State Building,
New York City, The Leaning Tower of
Pisa, Italy
London Eye, London, England

12. The CN Tower, Toronto, Canada Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa
White House Fountain,
Washington D.C. Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

13. Burj Al Arab, Dubai, U.A.E.
Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany
The little Mermaid,Copenhagen,Denmark
The Great Wall of China