Monday, March 17 is St. Patrick's Day, celebrating all things Irish in the U.S. and around the world. Cities celebrate with parades, bar crawls and more.

St. Patrick's "beautiful message" of tolerance and forgiveness "becomes more and more relevant," said Stack. In modern times, many know of the legends that St. Patrick rid Ireland of snakes and ...

You often see the four-leaf clover on St. Patrick’s Day. However, according to legend, St. Patrick used a three-leaf clover, ...

36. What song is considered the national anthem of Northern Ireland and is one of the most popular St. Patrick"s Day songs? Answer: The phrase comes from the Blarney Stone legend, which is ...

Saint Patrick's Day now plays a unifying role – albeit at the cost of drifting away from the historical figure who inspired it. His writings make no mention of beer, though a modern legend ...

We went to Mass, usually dressed with a bit of shamrock affixed to clothes, and we understood that as the symbol of the Trinity and the catechetical tool, which, according to legend, St. Patrick ...

Modern legend says that St. Patrick used shamrocks to explain the Holy Trinity while preaching, according to National Geographic. He supposedly used the plant to explain how the Father ...

St. Patrick’s Day 2025 is upon us ... had a lot of “luck” converting the Irish to Christianity. According to legend, Patty Cakes used the clover, otherwise known as the shamrock, as a ...

St. Patrick's "beautiful message" of tolerance and forgiveness "becomes more and more relevant," said Stack. In modern times, many know of the legends that St. Patrick rid Ireland of snakes and ...

St. Patrick is credited with introducing Christianity ... Patrick escaped slavery but returned to Ireland later. Legend has it that Patrick died on March 17. People in Ireland started observing ...