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Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig) colloquially St. Paddy's Day or simply Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day that celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), the most commonly recognised of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on 17 March.The day is a national holiday of Ireland: it is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland. It is also a public holiday in Montserrat. In Poland, Canada, United Kingdom (excluding Northern Ireland), Australia, the United States and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.^[1]
St. Patrick's feast day was placed on the universal liturgical calendar in the Catholic Church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding^[2]
in the early part of the 17th century, although the feast day was
celebrated in the local Irish church from a much earlier date. St.
Patrick's Day is a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland.
The feast day usually falls during Lent. The church calendar avoids the
observance of saints' feasts during certain solemnities, moving the
saint's day to a time outside those periods. St. Patricks Day is very
occasionally affected by this requirement. Thus when 17th of March
falls during Holy Week, as in 1940 when St. Patrick's Day was observed on 3 April in order to avoid it coinciding with Palm Sunday, and again in 2008, having been observed on 15 March. St. Patrick's Day will not fall within Holy Week again until 2160 - when it will fall on the Monday before Easter.
Geen ribbons and shamrocks were worn in celebration of St Patrick's Day as early as the 17th century.^[5] He is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish, and the wearing and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs have become a ubiquitous feature of the day.^[6][7] The phrase "the wearing of the green", meaning to wear a shamrock on one's clothing, derives from the song of the same name.According to legend, St. Patrick used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish people.


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