[SparrowHawk62]

Oh dear! Wearing Orange in my part of town, into one of me pubs is a good way to get your ass kicked!

Saint Patrick's day is a high holy day. Seems over the years we have forgotten that. But in order to remember you'll need a bit of history about St. Patrick.

Patrick was a slave who spent most of his day attending to his masters sheep. Cold and lonely days were met with solitude. Patrick decided that he should speak to God during his day. God did answer him and told him to become a man of God and spread the word about God. Patrick escaped from slavery and returned to England. He spent fifteen years in the Seminary and became a Priest.
Patrick returned to Ireland and began teaching the Celts and Drew-ids that there was only one God. Patrick was well aware of the customs and folk laws of these people. He imposed the Celt symbol of the sun on the Christan cross, this was his way of showing his respect for the ways and customs of the native people.
When Patrick rid the land of serpents, this was his way of ridding the land of the Celts and Drew-ids ways of worship. It is symbolized by the snake and thus the falsehood that Patrick rid the land of the animal it's self.
Patrick was to become a Saint on the day of his death. March the seventeenth. Thus we celebrate his death and not his birth.
His death was declared a high holy day by the Church entering Patrick into Saint Hood.
The reason for the celebration, is that the High Church declared the Irish could eat meat during what is normally Lent. The Irish held a feast on this day after attending Church.