St. Patrick's Day

   
     St. Patrick's day is held on March 17th every year. It is a national holiday for Ireland. People will have a day off for work for this holiday. The color for this holiday is green and if you don't wear green, you will get pinched. At first blue was the color for the holiday but it changed to green because Ireland is called the "Emerald Isle." People would wear green ribbons and shamrocks on this day.

     St. Patrick's Day is named after a famous patron names Saint Patrick who had died March 17, 461 AD, but he was actually English. His given name was Maewyn Succat. If he did not legally change his name, this holiday would be called Maewyn Succat Day instead. He was caught as a slave when he was 16 and tended sheep. He had escaped back to England and became a priest then he took his teachings to Ireland.

     The reason why we get pinched on St. Patrick's day for not wearing green because people believed that if you wore green, the leprechauns can't see you. If you don't wear green, the leprechauns can see you and they will pinch you. We wear green on this holiday because it also represented the Irish culture. They came to America celebrating with this color on them.