St. Patrick's Day is a day of honoring an adult Patrick who first spread Christianity to Ireland. On this day, the Irish, which is spread all over the world as well as the Irish mainland, enjoys festivals with green and shamrocks and Irish traditional beer Guinness. The shamrock symbolizes the trinity and the green symbolizes the Irish flag, which is a green wave all the way to the clothes, nail shoes and even the face .
Children watching St. Patrick's Day parade, Montreal
The event takes place on the 17th of March every year, and many people come to Dublin to catch up with the hostel. So if you start your Irish language school in February, it is the biggest festival in Ireland so you can ask for a share room later on .
St. Patrick
St. Patrick (386-461) was born in the Romano British house. His father and grandfather were deacons in the church.
At the age of sixteen, he was kidnapped by a pirate and taken to Ireland to be a slave. Patrick's location is estimated to be somewhere on the west coast of Ireland, but the exact location is unknown. According to his confessions, he was called by God and ran away from the shore, returning to England and studying to become a priest in the church in Gallia Auxerre.
In 432, he went back to Ireland to spread Christianity to the Irish people who believed in Celtic polytheism as bishops. According to Irish folklore, Patrick used Irish shamrocks with three leaves to explain the trinity. On March 17, 461, 30 years after the preaching of Christianity, Patrick breathed and his body was cremated in Downpatrick. Patrick later became a major figure in Ireland's Catholic respect.
The color associated with St. Patrick was originally blue, but it became more and more persuasive to associate it with the green of the shamrock on the day of St. Patrick's Day. Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a green ribbon and shamrock since the 17th century. The Wearing of the Green became an Irish folk song.
St. Patrick's Day
It is also a festival to celebrate St. Patrick's Day procession and St. Patrick's, and is also a venue for promoting musicals, soccer, and movies.
It is the day to commemorate the adult Patrick who first spread Christianity to Ireland in the 5th century. St. Patrick's Day is also a holiday in Ireland and Northern Ireland, Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada and Montserrat in the UK. This event is held widely in England, Canada, USA, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand where many Irish migrants lived. Every year in Korea, in order to commemorate the establishment of diplomatic relations with Ireland in March, Cheonggyecheon Plaza has a related event.