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	Saint Patrick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While Patrick encouraged the Irish to become monks and nuns, it is not certain that he was a monk himself; it is even less likely that in his time the monastery became the principal unit of the Irish Church, although it was in later periods.
		Legend also credits Patrick with teaching the Irish about the concept of the Trinity by showing people the shamrock, a three-leaved clover, using it to highlight the Christian dogma of 'three divine persons in the one god' (as opposed to the Arian heresy that was popular in Patrick's time).
		Patrick is also patron of Nigeria, which was evangelized primarily by Irish clergy, especially priests from Saint Patrick's Missionary Society (also known as the Kiltegan Missionaries).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Patrick (941 words)

	St. Patrick's Day - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because of St. Patrick's patronage, the celebrations in Dublin have been extended to a week-long event called St. Patrick's Festival, encompassing a spectacular fireworks display (Skyfest), open-air music, street theatre and the traditional parade.
		The topic of the previous year's (2004) St. Patrick's Symposium was "Talking Irish," during which the nature of Irish identity, economic success and the future was discussed.
		The gay groups and their sympathisers would lie down in the middle of the street at the start of the parade route, and would be arrested when they refused to move; in the late 1980s such arrests averaged several hundred per year, but had dwindled to a dozen or less annually by the early 2000s.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /st._patrick%27s_day.htm (1092 words)

	Crew's Nest - St Patrick, the Patron Saint of Ireland
		Patrick was born sometime between 387 - 390 AD (the exact date isn't certain) to a wealthy, high ranking Romano-British family.
		Patrick was not overly religious as a child but this changed when, at the age of 16 (c 405), he was kidnapped by Irish raiders under the command of High King Niall.
		Patrick is remembered as a Bishop and missionary and is best known as the patron saint of Ireland, whose feast day is 17 March.
	www.crewsnest.vispa.com /stpatrick.htm (750 words)

	St Patrick's Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		St Patrick was born a Briton under Roman rule - the exact location of his birthplace isn't known but it was either the north of England or southern Scotland.
		Patrick was taken to Antrim where he was sold to a local landowner, Meliuc, who put him to work as a shepherd.
		Patrick did not seem destined to have an easy life - when travelling home through Britain he was captured by a band of brigands, who returned him to slavery.
	www.saint-patrick.com /history (436 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Patrick
		Patrick on his return journey from Rome received at Ivrea the tidings of the death of Palladius, and turning aside to the neighboring city of Turin received episcopal consecration at the hands of its great bishop, St.
		Patrick arrived at the hill of Slane, at the opposite extremity of the valley from Tara, on Easter Eve, in that year the feast of the Annunciation, and on the summit of the hill kindled the Paschal fire.
		Patrick's mountain, and is honoured as the Holy Hill, the Mount Sinai, of Ireland.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11554a.htm (5279 words)

	The History Channel - The History of St. Patrick's Day
		St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is one of Christianity's most widely known figures.
		Many of the stories traditionally associated with St. Patrick, including the famous account of his banishing all the snakes from Ireland, are false, the products of hundreds of years of exaggerated storytelling.
		It is known that St. Patrick was born in Britain to wealthy parents near the end of the fourth century.
	www.historychannel.com /exhibits/stpatricksday/index.jsp?page=patrick (550 words)

	St. Patrick's Day (Irish) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Patrick was born between 370 and 390 C. in the Roman Empire in Britain.
		Patrick is also reported to have driven all of the snakes, a pagan symbol, out of Ireland and into the sea where they drowned.
		Patrick's Day celebrations in the United States are secular and date back as far as 1737 when Boston held its first St. Patrick's Day parade.
	www3.kumc.edu /diversity/ethnic_relig/stpats.html (269 words)

	BBC - Religion & Ethics - St Patrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.
		St Patrick is traditionally associated with the Shamrock plant, which he used to explain the concept of the Trinity.
		St Patrick's value doesn't really come from the historical details, but from the inspiration of a man who returned to the country where he had been a child slave, in order to bring the message of Christ.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/christianity/features/stpatrick/index.shtml (220 words)

	Famous Irish - St. Patrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Patrick was sold as a slave to the house of a Miliue (or Milchu), a Druid of the Dal Riada in what is now Antrim, Ireland.
		According to legend, Patrick was shortchanged on a shot of whiskey and told the landlord of the hostelry that the devil was in his cellar gorging himself on the landlord's dishonesty.
		Patrick then announced that the landlord's newfound generosity was "starving the devil in his cellar," and proclaimed that thereafter everyone should have a drop of the 'hard stuff' on his feast day: Patrick's Pot.
	www.irishclans.com /articles/famirish/stpatrickbio.html (1119 words)

	St. Patrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Patrick himself wrote that the scene of his youth was Banavem Tiburniae (possibly the town of Tiburnia near Holyhead in western Wales), where his father was a member of the governing body.
		Patrick was assigned to replace him in 432, and if the reported fate of the former mission be true, then Patrick’s showed considerable courage in accepting.
		Patrick's own writings, and the writings of his contemporaries, show him to have been a missionary of extraordinary zeal, energy, and courage, careless of his own safety in his fervor to `spread the nets for God'.
	www.aoh.com /history/archive/stpatrick.htm (1062 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Patrick's Purgatory
		Patrick, but it is also known as the Lough Derg pilgrimage, so named from Lough Derg, a sheet of water covering 2200 acres, about thirteen miles in circumference 450 feet above sea level, on which are eleven islands, the principal of which are Saints Island and Station Island.
		Patrick's connection with the purgatory which bears his name is not only a constant tradition, but is supported by historical evidence, and admitted by the Bollandists.
		Numerous accounts of foreign pilgrimages to St. Patrick's Purgatory are chronicled during the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, including the vision related in the "Legenda Aurea", printed in 1482.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12580a.htm (592 words)

	St. Patrick's Day -- Customs and History
		The person who was to become St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was born in Wales about AD 385.
		Patrick, having adopted that Christian name earlier, was then appointed as second bishop to Ireland.
		Patrick was arrested several times, but escaped each time.
	wilstar.com /holidays/patrick.htm (493 words)

	Catholic Online - Saints & Angels - Saint Patrick
		Patrick's captivity lasted until he was twenty, when he escaped after having a dream from God in which he was told to leave Ireland by going to the coast.
		Patrick converted Dichu (the chieftain) after he was unable to move his arm until he became friendly to Patrick.
		Patrick was a humble, pious, gentle man, whose love and total devotion to and trust in God should be a shining example to each of us.
	www.catholic.org /saints/saint.php?saint_id=89 (558 words)

	St. Patrick - the man & his life
		Patrick was born sometime around 380 in Scotland or Wales.
		It is believed that Patrick was sent to Ireland as a bishop to replace Saint Palladius who died in 431.
		Patrick converted Dichu after he was unable to move his arm until he became friendly to Patrick.
	nosid.tripod.com /patrick.htm (659 words)

	Interesting Thing of the Day: St. Patrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On St. Patrick’s Day, all I ever managed to deduce was that we were all wearing green because that had something to do with Ireland; any information about the historical St. Patrick was not part of my secular experience of the holiday.
		Patrick began studying for the priesthood, and in either 432 or 462, after he was ordained, he returned to Ireland—this time as a missionary.
		Patrick is, however, credited with inventing the Celtic cross; he felt that by superimposing the pagan symbol of the sun on a cross, he could make it more appealing to the Irish people he was trying to convert.
	itotd.com /index.alt?ArticleID=491 (1219 words)

	Archdiocese of New York - About Saint Patrick's Cathedral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		St. Patrick's Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of New York, Edward M. Egan.
		The Cathedral was begun in 1858 by Archbishop John Hughes to replace the original St. Patrick's Cathedral, which is used today as a parish church in New York.
		The St. Elizabeth altar was designed by Paolo Medici of Rome.
	www.ny-archdiocese.org /pastoral/cathedral_about.html (508 words)

	St. Patrick's Day - Life of Patrick of Ireland, Links
		Pirates captured Patrick at the age of 16, during a raid and sold him as a slave in Ireland.
		Patrick wrote CONFESSION in his later years, an account of his spiritual development, to justify his mission to Ireland.
		Patrick's Day celebration in the United States was held in Boston in 1737.
	www.entourages.com /barbs/stpatrick.htm (552 words)

	Kids Domain - St. Patrick's History
		He was born somewhere near the end of the fourth century and took on the name Patrick or Patricus, after he became a priest, much later in his life.
		Patrick was about sixty years old when he arrived in Ireland and it is said that he had a winning personality that helped him win converts.
		Patrick used the shamrock leaf to symbolize the Trinity, and today many people wear a shamrock to commemorate Saint Patrick's Day.
	www.kidsdomain.com /holiday/patrick/history.html (753 words)

	St. Patrick - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
		Legends about Patrick abound; but truth is best served by our seeing two solid qualities in him: He was humble and he was courageous.
		Because of the island’s pagan background, Patrick was emphatic in encouraging widows to remain chaste and young women to consecrate their virginity to Christ.
		Patrick was a man of action, with little inclination toward learning.
	www.americancatholic.org /Features/SaintOfDay?id=1325 (579 words)

	The St. Patrick You Never Knew - March 1997 Issue of St. Anthony Messenger Magazine Online
		Patrick was born Patricius somewhere in Roman Britain to a relatively wealthy family.
		Patrick was so certain that he had been specifically called by God to do exactly what he did—return to the land of his captivity and convert the barbarians to Christianity—that his Confession leaves even the modern reader little room for doubt.
		Patrick's enslavement as an adolescent had to have been a critical factor in the development of his unique attitude toward the Irish.
	www.americancatholic.org /Messenger/Mar1997/feature1.asp (3158 words)

	St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
		Saint Patrick's Cathedral, the seat of the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York.
		It is existing proof that American architects and American artisans can hold their own with the architects and artisans of the Old World and that Catholics of America can raise sacred structures that captivate and cultivate the admiration of those who see it.
		Saint Patrick's Cathedral is the continued quest to combine the resources of the earth with the talents of man in order to draw the minds, hearts and aspirations of a people to a higher level of thinking and feeling.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/medny/stpat1.html (1194 words)

	2006 Friday, March 17, 2006 245th (NYC) New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade "On the streets of New York ...
		Originally, Irish societies joined together at their respective meeting places and moved in a procession toward St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, St. James Church, or one of the many other Roman Catholic churches in the City.
		The New York Convention and Visitors Bureau says that the St. Patrick's Day Parade is the largest and most famous of the many parades held in the city each year.
		Patrick's Day parade in 1762, when Irish immigrants in the British colonial army marched down city streets.
	www.saintpatricksdayparade.com /NYC/newyorkcity.htm (951 words)

	St. Patrick's Day in the Classroom
		Patrick's Day commemorates the patron saint of Ireland, Bishop Patrick, who in the year 432 left his home to bring Christianity to Ireland.
		Tradition says that Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland, but biologists say there were none in the country at the time.
		Shamrocks are associated with St. Patrick's Day because the Bishop used the three leaves to illustrate the Trinity.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Forest/8483/stpatclass.html (1212 words)

	Official St. Patrick's Festival 2005, 15th - 20th March Dublin, Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		2005 was a monumental year for St. Patrick’s Festival, we celebrated our 10 year anniversary with an electric programme of 60 events over five days seeing over 1.5 million people joining in the festivities.
		Patrick’s Festival is now by far the biggest annual event in the country providing entertainment for all interests and ages.
		Patrick’s Festival 2006 seems a long way away particularly in this hot summer weather but we are busy planning another outstanding programme for next year.
	www.stpatricksday.ie /cms (219 words)

	St. Patrick's Day, March 17th \| Background Info
		Patrick: The patron saint of Ireland and the Irish, was born about 385 A.D. in Northern Wales.
		Patrick is most known around the world as driving all the snakes out of Ireland through trickery.
		Today St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17 by the Irish as well as many Canadians with parades, parties, wearing of green, Irish songs and jigs.
	www.teachnet.com /lesson/misc/stpats031099.html (749 words)

	St. Patrick's Day History
		When he was 16, he was sold into slavery to Ireland where he was a shepherd for 6 years.
		Though originally a Catholic holy day, St. Patrick's Day has evolved into more of a secular holiday.
		He used it in his sermons to represent how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit could all exist as separate elements of the same entity.
	www.alphabet-soup.net /hol/sphist.html (315 words)

	March 17 Saint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is believed that St. Patrick was born in fifth century Britain to Roman parents.
		Patrick was so lonely on the hillside that he turned often in prayer to Jesus and his Mother Mary.
		But Patrick always felt that he had to go back to Ireland to bring that pagan land to Christ.
	www.tntt.org /vni/tlieu/saints/St0317.htm (262 words)

	St. Patrick's Church -- New Orleans, Louisiana
		Here at St. Patrick's, there is a long tradition of service to the poor and underprivileged, symbolized by our special relationship of support for the Ozanam Inn.
		The Pipe Organ in St. Patrick's Church is a 1962, three manual, 29 rank Moller.
		This is St. Patrick's third pipe organ and it is installed behind the original Erben Organ Case.
	www.oldstpatricks.org (2400 words)

	ireland.com -:- St. Patrick's 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Is St Patrick an appropriate symbol for modern Ireland?
		Perched on a cloud over West Mayo, Patrick the lad from Carlisle could be anyone's granddad.
		But, Brian Fallon writes, Patrick was a unique moral force in a primitive, tribal Ireland.
	www.ireland.com /events/st.patricks/articles (159 words)

	St. Patrick's Day Crafts for Kids - Enchanted Learning Software
		A St. Patrick's Day activity book for early readers with connect the dots, color by number, a maze, fill in the missing letters, match the shamrocks, finish the drawing, and a word unscramble.
		A St. Patrick's Day addition activity book in which the readers solves a series of addition problems and then does a letter substitution in order to answer St. Patrick's Day questions.
		A St. Patrick's Day subtraction activity book in which the readers solves a series of subtraction problems and then does a letter substitution in order to answer St. Patrick's Day questions.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /crafts/stpatrick (946 words)

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