St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated  on 17 March. It commemorates Saint Patrick the most commonly recognised of the patron saints of Ireland, and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland. It is observed by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion , the Eastern Orthodox Church and Lutheran Church. Saint Patrick's Day was made an official feast day in the early seventeenth century, and has gradually become a secular celebration of Irish culture in general.
The day is generally characterised by the attendance of church services, wearing of green clothes and the lifting of Lenten restrictions on eating and drinking alcoholic berverages.
St. Patrick's Day is held in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, 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, and New Zealand, among others. Today, St. Patrick's Day is probably the most widely celebrated saint's day in the world.
Leprechauns had nothing to do with St. Patrick or the celebration of St. Patrick's Day, a Catholic holy day. In 1959, Walt Disney released a film called Darby O'Gill & the Little People, which introduced America to a very different sort of leprechaun than the cantankerous little man of Irish folklore. This cheerful, friendly leprechaun is a purely American invention, but has quickly evolved into an easily recognizable symbol of both St. Patrick's Day and Ireland in general.


Then I'm going to leave links of this day:
http://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day-symbols-and-traditions/videos#green (Why Green?)

http://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day-symbols-and-traditions/videos#corned-beef-cabbage (Corned beef and cabbage)


(You can see more in the same web.)

By Dulce & Laura