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Thread #99726 Message #1997749
Posted By: Gulliver
15-Mar-07 - 02:43 PM
Thread Name: St. Patrick's Day Etiquite
Subject: RE: St. Patrick's Day Etiquite
The parade might be an American invention, but St. Patrick's Day has been around a long time. According to the historian Liam de Paor, in
St. Patrick's World, The Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age
Translations and Commentaries by Liam de Paor
Four Courts Press, Dublin, 1993:
From the seventh century onward, Patrick was regarded as pre-eminent among Ireland's early saints. His feast day, as a kind of national day, was already being celebrated by the Irish in Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries. In later times he become more and more widely known as the patron of Ireland.