Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Here is some stuff I have learned about this day. I thought it would be nice to share it with "y'all"! :o)
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Who is St. Patrick Anyway?

According to the World Book, St. Patrick lived about 389-461A.D., and is the patron saint of Ireland. St. Patrick was responsible for converting the Irish people to Christianity. He became known as the Apostle to the Irish.
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Interesting info found in Wikipedia:

St. Patrick's Blue, not green, was the colour long-associated with St. Patrick. Green, the colour most widely associated with Ireland, with Irish people, and with St. Patrick's Day in modern times, may have gained its prominence through the phrase "the wearing of the green" meaning to wear a shamrock on one's clothing. At many times in Irish history, to do so was seen as a sign of Irish nationalism or loyalty to the Roman Catholic faith. St. Patrick used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish. The wearing of and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs have become a ubiquitous feature of the saint's holiday. The change to Ireland's association with green rather than blue probably began around the 1750's.

Chicago dyes its river green and has done so since 1961 when sewer workers used green dye to check for sewer discharges and got the idea to turn the river green for St. Patrick's Day.

Tipperary Hill (section of Syracuse, NY) is home to the World famous "Green-on-Top" Traffic Light and is historically the Irish section in Syracuse. Saint Patrick's Day is rung in at midnight with the painting of a Shamrock under the Green-Over-Red traffic light.



(Posted on FB Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 9:42am)