In the spirit of celebrating St Patrick’s Day, here are five little known facts about the holiday that might make your day a little more meaningful.
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Why March 17?
St. Patrick died, most sources say, sometime around 490, on March 17. The date is his designated feast day, in the Catholic strain of the Christian religion. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, theologian Luke Wadding started the tradition: “Each year Wadding kept the Feast of St. Patrick with great solemnity, and it is due to his influence … that the festival of Ireland’s Apostle was inserted on 17 March in the calendar of the Universal Church.”
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