What is St Patrick’s Day?
Saint Patrick’s Day is yearly celebrated on March 17 which honors Ireland’s patron saint. Every year this holiday is widely celebrated by Irish in Europe, even since ninth and tenth centuries. Today except the Irish people, it is celebrated in America, Argentina, Australia, Canada etc. This holiday is associated with a number of activities. At first the people go to the church and pray for that day, and in afternoon the people participate in multi-day celebration, they go to the restaurant drink and feast on a traditional meal like Irish bacon, cabbage, and drink green beer.
Patrick’s Day is associated about another tradition as called “Wearing of Green.” All people participating in this celebration wear ribbons and shamrocks which is a three-leaved plant. This plant is a personification of Holy Trinty, and explain it to pagan Irish. The Holy Trinty as Christian doctrine teaches unity of father, son, and Holy spirit as three persons in one Godhead.
Finally, each year lot of people line parade, while, in Chicago dye the green vegetable making river green. The parade is the World’s oldest and largest in United States, over 150.000 people participate on it. To day in Chicago, in order to minimize environmental damage only 40 pound dye are used making river green, and doing that, the people like as unique way to celebrate the Patrick’s Day.