Saint Patrick’s Day – part 1

It’s Saint Patick’s day!!!

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Saint Patrick’s Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is a religious holiday __________(celebrate) internationally on 17 March. It is named afterSaint Patrick (c. AD 387–461), the most commonly recognised of the patron saints of Ireland. It __________(originate) as a Catholicholiday and became an official feast day in the early 17th century. It _____ gradually _____(become) more of a secular celebration ofIrish culture.

It is a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland,^[1]Northern Ireland,^[2]Newfoundland and Labrador and in Montserrat. It is also widely celebrated by the Irish diaspora, especially in places such as Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Argentina,Australia, New Zealand, and Montserrat, among others.

Saint Patrick

 

Saint Patrick (c. 387–461)

Little __________(know) of Patrick’s early life, though it is known that he__________(be born) in Roman Britain in the 4th century, into a wealthy Romano-British family. His father and grandfather were deacons in the Church. At the age of sixteen, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and taken captive to Ireland as a slave.^[3] It __________(believe) he was held somewhere on the west coast of Ireland, possibly Mayo, but the exact location is unknown. According to his Confession, he __________(tell) by God in a dream to flee from captivity to the coast, where he would board a ship and return to Britain. Upon returning, he quickly joined the Church in Auxerre in Gaul and studied to be a priest.^{[citation needed]}

In 432, he again said that he was called back to Ireland, though as a bishop, to Christianise the Irish from their native polytheism. Irish folklore __________(tell) that one of his teaching methods included using the shamrock to explain the Christian doctrine of the Trinity to the Irish people. After nearly thirty years of evangelism, he died on 17 March 461, and according to tradition, __________(bury) at Downpatrick. Although there were other more successful missions to Ireland from Rome, Patrick endured as the principal champion of Irish Christianity and __________(hold) in esteem in the Irish Church.

Wearing of the green

Originally, the colour associated with Saint Patrick was blue. Over the years the colour green and its association with Saint Patrick’s day __________(grow).^[4] Green ribbons and shamrocks __________(wear) in celebration of St Patrick’s Day as early as the 17th century.^[5] He is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagan Irish, and the wearing and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs have become a ubiquitous feature of the day.^[6][7] In the 1798 rebellion, in hopes of making a political statement, Irish soldiers __________(wear) full green uniforms on 17 March in hopes of catching public attention.^[4] The phrase “the wearing of the green”, meaning to wear a shamrock on one’s clothing, __________(derive) from a song of the same name.

In Ireland

 

According to legend, Saint Patrick used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish people.

Saint Patrick’s feast day, as a kind of national day, _____ already _____(use) by the Irish in Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries. In later times he __________(become) more and more widely known as the patron of Ireland.^[8] Saint Patrick’s feast day was finally placed on the universalliturgical calendar in the Catholic Church due to the influence of Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding^[9] in the early 1600s. Saint Patrick’s Day thus became a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland. The church calendar __________(avoid) the observance of saints’ feasts during certain solemnities, moving the saint’s day to a time outside those periods. Saint Patrick’s Day is occasionally affected by this requirement, when 17 March falls during Holy Week. This __________(happen) in 1940, when Saint Patrick’s Day was observed on 3 April in order to avoid it coinciding with Palm Sunday, and again in 2008, where it was officially observed on 14 March (15 March being used for St. Joseph, which had to be moved from March 19), although the secular celebration still __________(take) place on 17 March. Saint Patrick’s Day __________(not fall) within Holy Week again until 2160.^[10][11] (In other countries, St. Patrick’s feast day is also March 17, but liturgical celebration is omitted when impeded by Sunday or by Holy Week.)

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