Saint Patrick's Day, celebrated
on March 17th, in the dioceses of Ireland it is a solemn
and holy day of obligation and is officially called Saint
Patrick's Feast Day. The original color associated with Saint
Patrick was blue, but over time the color association changed to
green and green ribbons and shamrocks were worn in celebration of the
day was early as the 17th century. The phrase “the
wearing of the green”, which means wearing a green shamrock on
clothing comes from a song
of the same name.
Saint Patrick is a national day in
Ireland, but Irish in Europe have been celebrating it since the 9th
century; and later became known as the patron of Ireland. The Feast
Day was officially listed in the liturgical
calender in the Catholic Church, influenced by Luke
Wadding, a Franciscan
scholar in the early 17th century. A solemn ceremony in
the Roman
Catholic Church, it is a great feast day in the Church
of Ireland.
