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 St. Patrick's days, March 17th, a day the Irish and everyone else celebrate that all over the world. It is a day for joyous celebration, fun and laughter with friends and family. From the rural villages in the homeland, to the major cities around the world, on this day the world turns green and gives a salute to the men and women from Ireland. More than one hundred million people across the world will be celebrating the day in memory of a man called Patrick. A man born in Britain around 385AD, as a boy pf 14 he was captured and brought to Ireland as a slave. He spent 6 years in slavery, mainly tending to sheep. He then left and went abroad to study, at the age of 30 he returned as a missionary to convert the Celtic Heathen and pagans to Christianity. St Patricks Day Quotes He used the shamrock to illustrate the Holy Trinity, and why it is now the national flower and it has lead to the term "drowning the Shamrock", meaning drinking a few alcoholic beverages in celebration...

 St. Patrick's Day is one of the most popular green holidays you can come across. This holiday came all the way from Ireland to celebrate, obviously, St. Patrick, the enemy of snakes everywhere. St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland and is accredited with the conversion of Ireland over to Christianity during the second half of the 5th century. This is an unofficial holiday that is quite popular in the U.S. The first celebration in the U.S was held in Boston on 1737 by the Charitable Irish Society, later it came to New York in 1766 when an Irish soldiers marched through the city. St Patricks Day Images However, it came to be this is still a popular festival and luckily very easy to theme. The main thing to know is that everything must be green. Chicago even went so far as to dye its river green in celebration. Gold is a secondary color, but is to be used very sparingly. Three and Four leaf clovers are the symbol of choice for St. Patrick's day so of course anything with clov...