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Is Saint Patrick's Day real

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

St. Patrick was a real historical person, the first Bishop of Ireland and the main propagator of the Christian faith there in the fifth century a.d. The feast of St. Patrick is celebrated throughout the Roman Catholic church on March 17th. In Ireland it is a holy day of obligation, which means all Catholics in Ireland must go to Mass on that day. It's a little bit ironic that his feast is regarded as an occasion for beer-drinking and general revelry, since the saint himself was a great ascetic and spent more than a month at a time alone on a rocky island, fasting and praying.

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14y ago

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