I hope you enjoy the card that I've made for my classmates. It has some information about this celebration.
SAINT PATRICK'S DAY
St. Patrick’s Day is a cultural and religious celebration. It celebrates the death of the Patron Saint of Ireland (385-461 aC), on 17 March.
St. Patrick was born in a Roman Britain into an important Christian family. When he was sixteen, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Gaelic Ireland. He spent six years there working as a shepherd and during this time, he learnt celtic language and he “found God”. He got away and came back home, then he returned to Ireland to convert the pagan Irish to Christianity.
According to the legend, St. Patrick used the three leaved shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to Irish pagans.
Wearing on the green
Its’s customary to wear shamrocks and/or green clothing or accessories. In pagan Ireland, three was a significant number and the Irish had many triple gods.
Celebrations
St. Patrick’s feast day, as a kind of national day, was already celebrated by the Irish in Europe. At this moment, it’s celebrated around the world wearing green clothes, enjoying Irish food, drinking beer, staying in parades, concerts, outdoor theatre performances, and fireworks. The biggest parade of St. Patrick’s Day is in New York.
The main dish is cabbage with bacon, Irish stew meat, potatoes with onions and delicious cakes "scones".
“Whisky in the jar” is a famous and traditional Irish song, which is sung in pubs and parades and it has been played for a lot of music groups.
St. Patrick’s Day in Valencia You can enjoy this celebration drinking a black beer in one or all of these pubs: “St Patrick’s Pub” (GV Marqués del Turia, 69); “The Guinnes House” (Pza. Colegio del Patriarca, 6); “Finnegans of Dublin” (Pza. Reina, 19)
