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Event Information:
The
centre of Dublin in the Republic or
Ireland is the focus for the St
Patrick's day celebrations on March
17 every year, with a parade,
carnival and festival as the city's
residents all come out to celebrate
the feast day of their patron saint.
Saint
Patrick's Day is the feast day of
Saint Patrick, the patron saint of
Ireland and a day of celebration for
Irish people and all things that are
Irish. It is celebrated on March 17
all over Ireland and everywhere in
the world where Irish people or
their descendants live. New York
City has one of the biggest parades.
It is a very Irish festival and it
involves a lot of feasting and
celebrations, which includes
traditional Irish music, drinking
Guinness and eating bacon and
cabbage. Another tradition is one
has to wear green clothing or they
will be pinched. Green is the color
for Saint Patrick's day as it is the
national color of Ireland and people
will wear green on that day or have
some type of shamrock on their
clothing.
Saint
Patrick's feast day, as a kind of
national day, was already being
celebrated by the Irish in Europe in
the ninth and tenth centuries. In
later times he become more and more
widely known as the patron of
Ireland.[ Saint Patrick's feast day
was finally placed on the universal
liturgical calendar in the Catholic
Church due to the influence of
Waterford-born Franciscan scholar
Luke Wadding in the early 1600s.
Saint Patrick's Day thus became a
holy day of obligation for Roman
Catholics in Ireland. The church
calendar avoids the observance of
saints' feasts during certain
solemnities, moving the saint's day
to a time outside those periods.
Saint Patrick's Day is occasionally
affected by this requirement, when
17 March falls during Holy Week.
This happened in 1940, when Saint
Patrick's Day was observed on 3
April in order to avoid it
coinciding with Palm Sunday, and
again in 2008, where it was
officially observed on 14 March (15
March being used for St. Joseph,
which had to be moved from March
19), although the secular
celebration still took place on 17
March. Saint Patrick's Day will not
fall within Holy Week again until
2160. (In other countries, St.
Patrick's feast day is also March
17, but liturgical celebration is
omitted when impeded by Sunday or by
Holy Week.)
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