Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2016

A 19th-century drawing of the arms of Ireland.
Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, whose feast day is celebrated every 17 March. The March 17 celebration started in 1631 when the Church established a Feast Day honoring St. Patrick. He had been Patron Saint of Ireland who had died around the fifth century—a whopping 12 centuries before the modern version of the holiday was first observed. But very little is known about who he actually was, according to Marion Casey, a clinical assistan...