outside Reading #10

St. Patrick's Day

I chose to pick St. Patrick's day as my holiday to research more about. I watched a few history video's on history.com and learned some new things about one of my favorite holidays. Obviously, St. Patrick's Day is to celebrate St. Patrick. St. Patrick was born in Britain and was kidnapped to Ireland to be a slave. He escaped from Ireland to go back home where he became a Christian priest. It is said that he had a dream that told him to return to Ireland. So he did and began to convert the Irish to Christianity. It is celebrated on the 17th of March because it is said that St. Patrick died on that day. The shamrock became associated with St. Patrick because he used it as an example to the holy trinity. Also, the traditional color for the holiday was blue, but it was changed to green because green is the color associated with Ireland.