Happy St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is a yearly holiday named after Saint Patrick and celebrated on March 17. It began as a Catholic holiday; An official feast day in the early 1600s and now a secular celebration of Ireland’s culture. The color that was originally associated with Saint Patrick was blue. Over the years, green ribbons and shamrocks were worn to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish, thus becoming a ubiquitous feature of the day.
Pinching those not wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day is an American tradition, having really nothing to do with Ireland or Saint Patrick. It’s thought that if you wore green, it made you invisible to the Leprechauns, which was good because they would pinch anyone they could see. So the pinching is to warn and remind you about the Leprechauns.
To read more about St. Patrick’s Day, visit Wikipedia.
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