Yeah!! Today´s the day all the Irish are druken!! Aren´t they drunken every day...? But why do they celebrate it? This guy is the patron saint of Ireland. Thought to have been born in the tiny Welsh village of Banwen, in his early life he was captured by raiders and sold to Ireland as a slave. He escaped aged 22, under the direction of an angel, and spent twelve years in a monastery where he adopted the name of Patrick. One night he heard voices ( He drank?) urging him to return to Ireland and thus became one of the first Christian missionaries in the Emerald Isle. Famous for making no distinction of class in his preaching, he was himself ready for imprisonment or death at any point. Tradition also says that he was responsible for driving all the snakes out of Ireland.St Patrick himself used the shamrock in the 5th century to teach people about Christianity as he travelled around Ireland. Legend has it he preached that each of the three leaves illustrated the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit of the Holy Trinity. In the 19th century the small shamrock became a symbol of rebellion against the English and was strongly linked with Irish identity. Anyone seen wearing the shamrock risked death by hanging.
Now u can be an Irish!! Go to the nearest pub and have a large pint of Guinees!! I will!!
