WEAR GREEN ON SAINT PATRICK´S DAY!!

It´s St. Patrick´s Day this coming Tuesday and we´re planning to celebrate it at our school. How? Wearing something green!!

But, why celebrate it?

St. Patrick is Ireland´s patron saint, and March 17th , St. Patrick´s Day, marks his Roman Catholic feast day.

He is most known for driving the snakes from Ireland. It is true there are no snakes in Ireland, and there probably never have been.... Driving the snakes from Ireland was probably symbolic of putting an end to pagan practice. While not the first to bring christianity to Ireland, it´s St. Patrick who is said to have encountered the Druids at Tara and abolished their pagan rites. The story holds that he converted the warrior chiefs and princes, baptizing them and thousands of their subjects in the "Holy Wells" that still bear this name.

Saint Patrick´s Day has come to be associated with everything Irish: anything green and gold, shamrocks and luck and it is celebrated all around the world. Parades worldwide are decked out in colourful green and it is a day when everyone aspires to be Irish, and there are festival parades in all of the major cities of the world on March 17th, most particularly where there is an Irish diaspora.

HAPPY ST. PADDY´S DAY TO ALL YOU GUYS THAT CELEBRATE IT!!!

If you don´t, may you have the luck of the Irish anyway!!!

Your teachers.