Green Day Rules

Rule 1- St. Patrick was NOT a Leprechaun.

Rule 2-St. Patrick did NOT eat Corned Beef and Cabbage.

Rule 3- St. Patrick did NOT drink green beer.

Rule 4- St. Patrick DID have some lucky charms!


Born in Britain, St Patrick was the son of a wealthy alderman and a Christian. At the tender age of 16, Patrick was captured by pirates (some luck there...). He was sold as a slave in Ireland (more luck). There, Patrick dedicated himself to religion. He was a slave for 6 years in Ireland, before escaping back to his home of Britain (some real luck there).

Patrick was driven by the idea of returning to Ireland to convert the Irish to Christianity. He studied religion in a monastery of Lerins, on an island off the southeast coast of France. His religious superiors were reluctant to let him return to Ireland as a missionary.They feared his religious education was inadequate. But when Palladius, the first Irish missionary bishop, died in 431, Pope Celestine I then sent Patrick to Ireland (even more luck).

Patrick founded more than 300 churches and baptized more than 120,000 people, in Ireland. He brought in clergymen for his new churches from England and France. Patrick preached in Ireland the rest of his life. Patrick was chiefly responsible for converting the Irish people to Christianity. He became known as the Apostle to the Irish.

So if you are having an Irish celebration today, have some more cabbage and potatoes, sing "when Irish eyes are shining" and raise your glass of green stuff, and toast a first class missionary. Mine will be lime Koolaid. Patrick won't mind.



***Read the life story in his own words : The Confessions of St. Patrick.***

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