St. Patrick, who?

18Mar08

I just deleted my first post in this blog. It was inconcise and overly dramatic. In all, not what i want my image to be in the blog world. But whatever. Im slightly hungover, as it’s not only my spring break (my LAST spring break, actually) but yesterday was St. Patrick’s day.
I don’t get this holiday one damn bit. Are we celebrating the color green? Celebrating our need for excessive drinking and partying? Both?
But really, as it turns out, St. Patrick’s day is a memorialization of this Irish fellow, born a mere AD 385, who was actually named Maewyn. He was a Pagan until he was sold into slavery, which, apparently, being someone’s property changes your core beliefs. Maewyn turned Christian. He spent the rest of his natural life vying for the position of a Bishop, and converting those nasty Pagans into sparkling clean Christians. Maewyn, I’m sorry, Patrick (his newly dubbed Christian name) set up schools and churches and studied monastery and finally got to be an associate Bishop before he died March 17, ad 461. A day we would celebrate FOR EVER: St. Patrick’s day. The cute little clover, that we associate with this holiday, was Patrick’s tool in explaining the trinity.

clovers.jpg The things we do for christianity. Anywho, my St. Patrick’s day was pretty fun. No green beer or anything, but a 12-pack of BudLite was good enough. Thanks for dying St. Patrick. I’m kidding, I meant thanks for giving us another reason to get wasted on a weekday.

All of this information on Saint Patrick and this holiday can be located at the History Channel’s article. I’m hungry for some Irish bacon and cabbage now! It also has a section on the Leprechaun,

The original Irish name for these figures of folklore is “lobaircin,” meaning “small-bodied fellow.”

The leprechaun as it turns out has absolutely nothing to do with Saint Patrick.


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  1. 1 tallandrew on March 18, 2008 said:

    On years when St Patricks Day falls within Holy Week, like this year, it is omitted by the catholic church and is simply not in the calendar. This is due to the unusually early date of Easter this year. In Ireland, they move it two days to the 15th, so that they can still celebrate their patron Saints day. St Patrick is still worth remembering though! Read the story here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7300466.stm

  2. 2 pbz on March 18, 2008 said:

    Interesting! I’m among a family of avid catholics, even they didn’t mention this! Thnks for the input :)


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