St. Patrick Research Paper

St. Patrick was a Roman missionary and bishop in Ireland.His full name was Magonius Sucatus Patricius. He was born in 387 AD. The dates of his life cannot be fixed with certainty but, on a widespread interpretation, he was active as a missionary in Ireland during the second half of the fifth century.Patrick was born into a religious family, but was an atheist early in his life. He was supposedly sixteen when he was captured by Irish pirates and taken to Ireland to be a slave who looked after the animals. It was during that time he became a devout Christian. He turned to God and wrote a confession that said "The love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a
hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same. I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain." He lived in Ireland for six years before escaping and returning to his family. He then returned to Northern and Western Ireland. By the seventh century, he had already come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland. Early medieval tradition credits him with being the first bishop of Armagh. We now celebrate St. Patrick's day on March 17, which is said to be the day of his death. It is celebrated inside and outside Ireland as a religious and cultural holiday.
In the dioceses of Ireland, it is both a solemnity and a holy day of obligation; it is also a celebration of Ireland itself. St. Patrick preached and converted all of Ireland to Christianity. He worked many miracles and wrote of his love for God in Confessions.He merged Christianity with more traditional parts of Irish culture, including adding bonfires to the Easter celebrations and creating the Celtic cross, which incorporates the sun with the cross. He also is largely responsible for helping convert the Irish to Christianity. St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, according to legend. However, today we understand that Ireland is snakeless because of its climate and the water that surrounds it is too cold for British snakes to migrate over. The snakes are believed to be symbols of the Pagan religions. He used the shamrock to preach about the trinity. Many claim the shamrock represents faith, hope, and love, or any number of other things, but it was actually used by Patrick to teach the mystery of the Holy Trinity, and how three things, the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit could be separate entities, yet one in the
same. After years of living in poverty, traveling and enduring much suffering he died March 17, 461. St patrick's day is known as feast day, which is meant to celebrate an event or a person in the Catholic church especially Saints. The Irish celebrate St. Patrick's day by going to church in the morning and having a huge feast in the afternoon. St. Patrick's day was an unpopular holiday until 1970. On this day everyone wears green, but originally the color would be blue. On St. Patrick's Day in Ireland, Protestants wear orange, while Catholics Wear green. In many communities in Ireland, wearing the wrong color would be like wearing the wrong gang color in the wrong neighborhood. There is a long history of violence between Irish Catholics and Protestants The color green was a big part in Irish history. St. Patrick believed that there was only one true God