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March 17, is celebrated across the world as St. Patricks Day. The day is celebrated by a parade, where people don the iconic green hats and shamrocks (used as a symbol), along with Irish fairies or leprechauns flock the streets in celebration of the day. One can also call it a green festival because people drape their greenest garb on the particular day. The day is celebrated to mark one of Patrick’s miracles in which he is said to have prayed for the banishment of all snakes from Ireland.
That is what the legend says, but the contradiction to this is the fact that the real St. Patrick was not even born then. He was born in the 5th century and going by that may not have ever seen a snake or a shamrock.
St. Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the “Apostle of Ireland”, he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, along with saints Brigit of Kildare and Columba. It is believed he was born in the fag end of the fourth-century in Britain to wealthy parents.
According to the Confessio of Patrick, Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Along with saints Brigit of Kildare and Columba, he was the primary patron saint of ireland and he was also known as the “Apostle of Ireland.”
And when he was about 16, he was captured by Irish pirates from his home in Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland, looking after animals; he lived there for six years before escaping and returning to his family. According to a legend, similar to the snake banishment, it is believed that his walking stick grew into a living tree. He apparently planted the stick on the ground, where he was being evangalised at a place currently known as Aspatria. After becoming a cleric he returned to Ireland as a saint.
That is what makes the St. Patrick’s story a classical story of a British slave becoming Ireland’s patron saint!
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