B f L Day 13: Happy Day o'the Green!
I'm not Irish. And I don't drink beer. And bright green isn't really my color. So why on earth am I doing a St Patrick's Day post? [Ignore the 40 days of blogging pressure, and scraping bottom for ideas...] Because it's a really cool story, that's why! My 10 minutes of research has proven that this Saint Patrick had a very interesting life! Let's look at some of it, shall we? This tradition dates back to around 400 a.d. That's a long freaking time ago, and yet the legend continues! At 16, Patrick was captured by pirates and sold as a slave in Ireland. His owner was a pagan priest of Druidism. He escaped after about six years of slavery. He entered the priesthood in France, and after about 20 years, was allowed to go to Ireland to convert the pagans there. In his years there, he converted thousands to Christianity. He is said to have used the three-leafed shamrock to explain the holy trinity. The legend that St Patrick banished all the snake...