Saint Patrick
Feast Day: March 17 Saint Patrick's feast day is one of the few feast days still celebrated in the secular world, but there's much more to this saint than three-leafed clovers and everything green. In fact, Patrick is a great example for our March virtues of compassion, faithfulness, and mercy—born in Britain but captured at a young age and living in Ireland in captivity, he served six years before escaping back to Britain inspired by a divine voice. Later, he heard the same divine voice telling him to go back to Ireland as a missionary. He trained as a priest and went back to Ireland to serve the Christians there and spread the faith. St. Patrick was known for incorporating Irish culture into his preaching (including using the three-leafed clover as a symbol for the Trinity) and a legend tells that he expelled all the snakes from Ireland. |