If you are looking at a way to impress the lassies standing in line for a Guiness today (and they really don't have as many calories as you might think!" here is some trivia to impress, according to to Wikipedia.org:
- Saint Patrick (died March 17, 462, 492, or 493) is the patron saint of Ireland.
- He was born around 385 in Caledonia (the Latin name of a region corresponding approximately to modern Scotland), probably at Kilpatrick.
- At the age of about fourteen, Patrick was captured and taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped at the age of twenty and returned to Britain, reuniting with his parents and later becoming one of the first Christian missionaries to Ireland.
- He was one of the earliest writers to advocate the abolition of slavery.
- Patrick was not the first Christian missionary to Ireland, but he seems to have been the one who made the most
impact. - Mythology credits him with banishing snakes from the island of Ireland, though others suggest that for climatic reasons
Ireland never actually had snakes; one suggestion is that "snakes" referred to the symbolism of the Pagan priests of that time and place, the Druids, possibly shown by their tattoos or that it could have referred to Pelagianism, symbolized as an Old-Testamental "serpent". - Legend also credits Patrick with teaching the Irish about the concept of the Trinity by showing people the shamrock, a three leaved clover, using it to highlight the Christian dogma of "three divine persons in the one god" (as opposed to the Arian heresy that was popular in Patrick's time).
- It is unknown on what date he was born and died but it is believed that March 17 was his death date (according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica), and it is the date popularly associated with him as his Feast Day (known as St. Patrick's Day).
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