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ST. PATRICK’S DAY 2022: HOW DID IT GET STARTED; WHY CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE; WHO
IS PATRICK?

March 17, 2022 at 3:11 am PDT
By Cox Media Group National Content Desk and Debbie Lord

Start looking for shamrocks and fire up the Crock Pot for corned beef and
cabbage because March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day.

There will be celebrations honoring Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, by
more people around the world than could fit on the island to which he’s credited
with bringing Christianity.

Here’s a quick look at St. Patrick’s Day and everything green that goes with it.

What is St. Patrick’s Day?

The first celebration of Patrick’s life was an annual religious holiday held on
March 17, the day it is believed that he died. The celebrations were feast days
in honor of Patrick, who introduced Christianity to Ireland in the fifth
century.

Who was St. Patrick

Patrick was believed to have born in Roman Britain (Scotland), the son of a
wealthy family. His name was Maewyn Succat. He was kidnapped when he was 16 and
taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped after, he said, God told him to run from
his captors to the shore, where a boat would be waiting for him to take him back
to Scotland. He fled, the boat was there and he headed home, but he didn't stay.

He returned to Ireland as a priest using the name Patrick. He worked there for
the rest of his life to convert the Irish, who, at the time, practiced Celtic
polytheism (Celtic paganism).

While he was never officially canonized, his followers regarded him as a “saint
in heaven,” thus he received a feast day from the Roman Catholic Church and the
title of “saint.”

How is it celebrated?

St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in various parts of the world. Until the 1970s,
St. Patrick’s Day was a religious celebration in Ireland, and the pubs in the
country were closed.

Laws were passed then to open up the pubs for celebrations on March 17, and soon
after, the country’s leaders decided to market the holiday, highlighting Irish
culture for tourism purposes.

The observance of St. Patrick’s Day in Dublin, alone, has grown to a massive
multiday celebration where around 1 million people take part.

In the United States, millions celebrate the holiday, whether they are of Irish
descent or not. Two of the largest celebrations are in New York -- which hosts a
five-hour parade -- and Chicago -- where city officials dye the river green.

Many people wear something green on that day, signifying a link to the color
most associated with Ireland. Others lift a pint (or two) of beer at a pub or
try corned beef and cabbage or Irish stew.

About that tradition of celebrating the day by eating corned beef and cabbage --
there’s nothing more Irish than that, right?

About that tradition, well, we need to talk. Truth be told, corned beef and
cabbage is about as Irish as a McDonald’s Shamrock Shake.

Back in the day, people in Ireland would have celebrated the feast day with a
meal of Irish stew and soda bread, or maybe a meal of pork and potatoes, which
was inexpensive.

What has become a tradition of eating corned beef and cabbage to celebrate St.
Patrick’s Day likely grew out of the fact that those foods were less expensive
for immigrants who came to America. They substituted beef for pork and cabbage
for potatoes.

OK, at least the snake story is true, right?

Sorry, but that’s a bit of blarney, too. There were no snakes in Ireland, so
Patrick didn’t really have anything to drive out of the country, with the
exception of the druids.

Some think the story that Patrick drove the snakes into the sea was really an
allegory for him driving the pagan practices out of the country to make room for
Christianity. Others say it just makes for a good bit of gab.

Say what?

Let’s say you want to impress your friends and throw out a few Gaelic phrases.

You will probably want to start with “Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit!” That means
“Happy St. Patrick's Day to you!”

It’s pronounced: lah leh PAH-drig SUN-uh gwitch.

Native Irish speakers would shorten it to "Lá 'le Pádraig," a more casual way of
offering good wishes on St. Patrick's Day. It's pronounced: lah leh PAH-drig.

If you want to impress your friends in a pub, you might want to throw out,
“Pionta Guinness, le do thoil,” or “A pint of Guinness, please.” It’s
pronounced: Pyunta Guinness leh duh hull.

St. Patrick’s Day by the numbers

* There are 450 churches in the United States named after St. Patrick. Perhaps
the most famous is in New York City.
* It takes 40 pounds of dye to turn the Chicago River green for St. Patrick's
Day.
* According to the U.S. Census, 650,000 babies are named Patrick in a year.
* A little more than 20 percent of the residents of Massachusetts say they are
Irish; 20.6 of those in New Hampshire claim Irish ancestry.
* According to Wallet Hub, the value of a leprechaun’s pot of gold is $1.22
million. That’s 1,000 gold coins weighing 1 ounce each.
* A crystal bowl of shamrocks is given by the president of Ireland to the
president of the United States each St. Patrick's Day.
* There are 16 places in the United States named Dublin.
* 34.7 million U.S. residents claim to be of Irish descent.
* 83 percent of those surveyed say they intend to wear green on St. Patrick's
day.

Sources: History.com; Wiki How; Quora; National Geographic; Time and date.com

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12, 2022, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune via AP)

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