Saint Patrick upset the Pagan Druids when he converted the Pagan Irish to Christianity. The Druids were upset that Saint Patrick was replacing their religion with Christianity in an effort to wipe out their religion.
Modern pagans who wish to reconstruct the ancient Celtic traditions and thanks to St. Patrick have very little to work with as far as information.
Scientists have determined that snakes have never lived in Ireland. The snakes are symbolic of the pagan Druid gods that Patrick drove out of Ireland by converting the Irish to Catholicism.
His greatest achievement was converting a large number of pagan Druids to Catholicism.
Saint Patrick was largely responsible for converting pagan Ireland to Christianity.
Many practices and customs of Pagan people were so deeply rooted in the hearts of the Pagan people that the Christians wanted to convert so they found ways of combining them into the new practices of Christianity to make it easier for converting Pagan people to Christianity.
Halloween
Scottish and Irish. Although it represented something different there than it did in america. Halloween is also the pagan / celtic new year and a pagan autumn celebration called Samhain.
Saint Patrick is credited with banishing snakes from Ireland. However, scientists have found no fossil evidence that snakes ever lived in that country. The snakes represent the pagan gods Patrick banished when he converted the Irish to Christianity.
For something he actually did, he is known for converting the pagan Druids of Ireland to Christianity. That snake banishing thing is just a myth.
Before converting to Islam, Umar ibn Al-Khattab was a pagan, worshipping various aspects of nature.
The Celts, including the ancient Irish, were pagans as were all people of that time except for the Jews. I seriously doubt that a Gaelic word for pagan would exist, but I could be wrong. It has happened before. Anyone else?
YES...Haloween originated in Ireland It is a pagan holiday to celebrate the spirits of their ancestors... Look it up on historychannel.com