With only 21 days to go before the big day, we think it's time to look at some St Patty's Day facts:
St. Patrick wasn't Irish! Yes, the great man was born across the Irish Sea somewhere along the west coast of Britain. At age 16, he was captured and sold into slavery to a sheep farmer. He escaped when he was 22 and spent the next 12 years in a monastery. In his 30s he returned to Ireland as a Christian missionary. He died at Saul in 461 AD and is buried at Downpatrick.
St. Patrick "chased the snakes out of Ireland". While true that there are no indigenous species of slithery creatures on the Emerald Isle, it is believed that the story is symbolic of St. Patrick and his followers conversion of ancient pagan celts to christianity.
Did you know that over 13,000,000 pints of Guinness will be consumed on St. Patrick's Day. That's one heck of a hangover!
