Facts about St. Patrick's day!
St Patrick’s day is on March 17th.
It is both an Irish religious and national holiday.
Immigrants from Ireland brought this tradition to the United States.
St Patrick is a very famous and important person in Ireland.
St Patrick’s real name was Maewyn Succat. He was born in Wales around 389 AD.
When he was 16, he was kidnapped by bandits and taken to Ireland as a slave. He worked as a shepherd.
He spent many long hours alone taking care of sheep out in the fields.
He felt lonely and afraid. During that time he began to think about God.
He repented from his sins and unbelief and he turned to God with all his heart.
He had a dream in which God told him to leave Ireland by going to the coast.
He escaped to Gaul (France) after six long years of slavery.
He studied in a monastery for twelve years near Auxerre, in France. He had a vision telling him to return to Ireland as a missionary.
At sixty, he came back to Ireland to convert the pagans of Ireland to Christianity.
He used the shamrock to explain the concept of the Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit). St Patrick’s mission in Ireland lasted for thirty years.
He died on March 17 in 461 AD.
Now March 17th is a day where we celebrate ST. Patrick and Irish heritage as a whole!
Watch this video on the history of Saint Patrick's day!
St. Patricks day symbols 
How is St. Patrick's day celebrated today?
Wearing green!
St. Patrick's day parades!
Irish Culture!
Read this St. Patrick's day letter and answer the questions below!
Hello to you all, my name is Maura, and I’m Irish, from Dublin,
so the Republic of Ireland or Eire. And today is one of my
favorite days because it is 17th March and it is ………Saint
Patrick’s Day, of course. It is our national day when we celebrate
Saint Patrick our Patron Saint who brought Christianity to Ireland
So we are going to celebrate! Can you imagine? I’m going to go to the big parade in the streets of Dublin, where I live, with all my family wearing green costumes, green hats, shamrocks in our
buttonholes, Mum has even dyed her hair green!
Then, we will all have a big party at home, we have prepared
bunches of shamrocks from our garden ( remember, the national emblem of Ireland).
We have decorated our house green, a must on an island which is called the
Emerald Island. And of course, we’re eating green food! All the food for the party is green, apples, lettuce, cucumber, olives, spinach, pistachio cake, the bread for the sandwiches is green too! And to drink: green mint with lemonade.
Dad prefers green beer, poor Dad! Tomorrow is going to be a difficult day!
My cousins in New York and Chicago in the USA are celebrating it too. Guess what! In Chicago, they even color the river green. So yes, it is going to be a great day for us all.
Love XoXo Maura!
Say if the statements are right or wrong and correct those that are wrong
- The person speaking is a boy named Ian-----------------------------------------
- She lives in Northern Ireland.---------------------------------------------------
- Today is the seventeenth of March.-------------------------------------------
- People celebrate their revolution. ----------------------------------------------
- Saint Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland.-----------------------------------
- The main color associated is blue.----------------------------------------------
- They do nothing special on that day.---------------------------------------------
- She‘s going to a big parade in the capital.--------------------------------------
- The capital of Eire is Belfast.----------------------------------------------------
- The main emblem is the three-leaf shamrock.----------------------------------
- Another name for shamrock is clover.-------------------------------------------
- After the parade, Maura will go back home and that’s it.-----------------------
- They have decorated their house green.-----------------------------------------
- They are going to wear orange costumes like the other color of the Irish flag.-----------
- They are going to eat green food.-----------------------------------------------
- Ireland is nicknamed Sapphire Ireland -----------------------------------------
- Saint Patrick’s day is celebrated in Ireland only.--------------------------------
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