St Patrick

2022 - 3 - 17

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Saint Patrick, the man behind St. Patrick's Day holiday, wasn't even ... (USA TODAY)

Who was St. Patrick and why do we celebrate him? Saint Patrick is the protecting and guiding saint of Ireland, though ironically, he was not Irish.

Being especially big in New York, that parade is now considered the world‘s oldest civilian parade and the largest in the U.S., with over 150,000 participants, according to History.com. This parallels the Holy Trinity, where there is the God, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, yet still one entity. It is presumed that the association came from the popular 1959 Disney movie "Darby O’Gill & the Little People," which features Irish leprechauns, says Stack. Surprisingly the earliest record of a St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in St. Augustine, Florida, not Ireland, in 1601. They used St. Patrick's Day as a holiday to celebrate their heritage. It was in the midst of this vocational experience that he understood his call to become a Catholic priest," Grote said in an emailed statement. The Catholic holiday has been celebrated since the 8th century in Ireland. The holiday originally was tied to religious ideals but now is also a symbol of Irish pride. According to Grote, Patrick was repeatedly attacked and captured by Irish clans. St. Patrick's Day is celebrated globally on March 17. To fight the resistance toward Christianity, he incorporated pagan rituals into church practices. "He returns to Ireland and brings Christianity with him.

St Patrick's Day: Who is St Patrick, why do the Irish celebrate St ... (Yorkshire Evening Post)

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Joint Purim and St. Patrick's Day gives Irish Jews more reasons to ... (The Times of Israel)

Known to Jewish community as 'The 'Double P,' day will be celebrated by local synagogues in Dublin and by expats living in Israel.

“Purim of 2020 was the last community celebration with a lot of people,” she said. Financial support from readers like you allows me to travel to witness both war (I just returned from reporting in Ukraine) and the signing of historic agreements. The 100 expected guests will raise one glass of Guinness for St. Patrick’s Day, another for Purim, and then a third, fourth and beyond. On top of that, there’s a dress-up activity in Irish schools on April 23, for World Book Day. The proportion of Jews in the elementary school division is only 50%. According to Lent, only a few hundred of Ireland’s 3,000-odd Jews are locals, descended from immigrants from Eastern Europe who settled in Ireland from the 19th century onward.

Green roots: The teams worldwide named after St Patrick (RTE.ie)

As we celebrate St Patrick's Day Samuel Kingston explores some of the teams in different sports that have been named after Ireland's patron saint.

The St Patrick’s basketball program was regarded as one of the best in New Jersey state. The school was set up by St Patrick’s parish as a vocational school in 1863. After a few stops and starts, the team really got going in the 1950s and are still playing today. Playing in their yellow and green halved shirts with green shamrock, the Irish connection is clear. Some modern accounts say it is disputed due to the weak schedule they played but others recognise the win as legit as it was acknowledged and accepted in 1915 that they had won. The team went semi-professional in 1914 and started to recruit for top local players. This was a golden era for Irish athletic organisations in North America. The most well-known being the Irish - American Athletic club in New York. "The Winged Fists" achieved remarkable records. In New Zealand, the Marist order have a strong connection to rugby. Just after self-government in 1948 the leading team in Zabbar adopted the name of Ireland’s patron saint, becoming St Patrick. The St Patrick's were founded in 1910. From the early 1900s, St Patrick’s were an amateur hockey team operating in the city. Current president of the Maple Leafs is hockey legend Brendan Shanahan whose parents both emigrated from Ireland. Around St Patrick’s day each year, the Leafs wear a heritage jersey of the Toronto St Patricks for a NHL game.

St Patrick's Day: a time for reflection in Northern Ireland (Energy Saving Trust)

This St Patrick's Day we're reflecting on our activities over the last year and analysing the energy landscape in Northern Ireland.

My family's unsettling St. Patrick's Day memories are an anti-racist opportunity (unknown)

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2022: It's time for Irish Catholic Americans to be honest about our racist and anti-Black history.

The point of remembering this shadow side of Irish Catholic American history is not to blame and shame but to learn and grow. Plus, if we remember the ugly we can also reclaim the beautiful white Irish American Catholic souls who defied conventions of anti-Blackness: the parishioners who refused to sign racial covenants, the white college students who insisted that Black lives matter before that became a mantra, my housing developer grandfather who paid into the family’s Black housekeeper’s Social Security even though he was not legally required to. Some relatives lived in a city parish that records of the American Catholic Historical Society indicate was built on land bequeathed to the church by an Irish-born slave owner who had two enslaved people baptized while living there, while others kept their heads down in a rural parish less than 15 miles from the Mason-Dixon Line, while Black refugees of slavery were secreted by on the Underground Railroad. Some lived in predominantly Irish parishes that organized to keep Black families out, and some attended predominantly Irish Catholic colleges — like my current employer, La Salle — that were slow in letting Black students in. On St. Patrick’s Day 1950, in a new suburban parish in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, my mom and her “Irish twin” brother performed in a minstrel show. To start, on St. Patrick’s Day we could let go of feeling defensive or guilty about the racism in our Irish American Catholic history and simply tell the truth about it. Minstrel shows in Catholic parish halls allowed families like mine to stay tethered to a key part of our cultural identity as Irish American Catholics, especially in new suburban landscapes.