Top 5 Facts about St Patrick's Day

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welcome to watchmojo.com is installment

we're counting down the five most

surprising facts we could find about st.

Patrick's Day ah

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we're not doing st. Patty's Day this

year come on let's use Oh

number five st. Patrick wasn't Irish and

he wasn't called Patrick my whole life

was a lie he was actually British and

was originally named maewyn succat

st. Patrick was only known as Patrick

once he'd become a priest and the only

reason he traveled to Ireland in the

first place was because he'd been

kidnapped

cursed pirates sail these waters at

around 16 years old young maewyn was

taken by pirates from his native home of

either Scotland or more probably Wales

and sold into Irish slavery he spent six

long years herding sheep in the Irish

countryside before escaping back to

Britain and reuniting with his parents

next he trained with the church and

achieved priesthood before a godly

calling summoned him back to the Emerald

Isle where he traveled the countryside

teaching Christianity and converting

thousands prepare to receive the true

Lord and the rest really is history

except for one part number four there

were never any snakes in Ireland snakes

why did it have to be snakes popular st.

Patty's Day legend says that the patron

saint of Ireland is the reason why the

country doesn't have any snakes

supposedly a st. Patrick chased every

single serpent into the sea and banished

them forever after snakes attacked him

during a 40 day fast he was undertaking

on a hilltop

however science says that this myth is

exactly that a myth all fish

all evidence suggests that post-glacial

Ireland never played host to snakes or

any reptiles more likely the story is a

metaphor and Patricks snakes were in

fact some of Ireland's more undesirable

people or his ideological rivals number

three it's not traditional to drink beer

today beer is probably the second most

synonymous thing with Saint Patrick's

Day

behind Ireland itself on average between

11 and 13 million pints of Guinness are

consumed worldwide on March 17th and a

2012 study found the day to be worth

over 245 million dollars to the

International brewing industry but no

matter how many stouts we drink nowadays

getting drunk is not a Patty's Day

tradition dude oh yeah you're right make

it two bottles pubs weren't even allowed

to be opened in Ireland on that day

until 1970 when st. Patrick's Day was

converted from a religious to a national

holiday the date has always been a feast

day however with significance because

st. Patrick's falls during Lent a day of

merriment during a staunch period of

fasting it's the first glimpse of

gluttony on the Christian calendar since

Shrove shoes days pancakes number 2 st.

Paddy's might be more American than

Irish happy st. Patrick's Day everybody

34 million Americans claim Irish

heritage which is about 5 times the

population of Ireland itself first

observed in Boston in 1937 by the 1800s

it had become a regular affair New York

City is famous for its quarter million

strong marching parade which has been

held since 1762 and Chicago is well

known for dying it's River green a

custom also carried out at the White

House fountain since 2009 there's

another particularly peculiar

presidential tradition as well every

year since 1952 the Irish leader

presents the u.s. commander

a crystal bowl of shamrocks and the pair

then posed for photos

though the president can keep the

crystal the shamrocks themselves are

promptly destroyed as per security

procedures number one we should be

wearing blue all right laugh all you

want but this is my lucky st. Patty's

Day suit if you've been watching this

video with your mind's eye firmly tinted

to green then you've been watching it

all wrong historically speaking st.

Patrick's was a very blue day

no no unacceptable that's so not Raven

there's even a shade of colour named

after the saint which is used on

Ireland's presidential standard and as

part of the Irish Guards uniform the

association of st. Paddy's with green

only began in the late 1700s and the

Irish rebellion at that time the clover

became a nationalist symbol and green

emerged as the patriotic color of choice

today a well-read reveler might tip

their hat to tradition but the vast

majority of us go all-out emerald

besides blue beer just seems well about

his weird green beer actually we don't I

know you're gonna love it

you know I got green beer for you

information so what do you think will

you start wearing blue in the sea of

green or would you rather not be that

guy

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