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Show from captivity and after many adventure ad-venture reached the Continent, where he wm uccefully ordained deacon! priest and bishop. With the authority of Pope Celettine, St. Patrick, once more, returned to Ireland, to preach the gospel to it then heathen inhabitant. The history of St. Patrick' Day i mostly legendary history. Probably Prob-ably the most famou fete associated associat-ed with St. Patrick was hi driving the makes of Ireland. However, a little known but cute legend is associated with thi event. It is (aid, that when banishing the anake and toads from Ireland, I in the Gaultie mountains situated between the counties of Cork and Tipperary, St. Patrick chained a monster serpent in a lake called Lough Dilueen, telling him that he would remain there until Monday. However, St. Patrick never returned return-ed to free the serpent and on every Monday morning, it ;s said, the serpent calls out in Irish: "it is a long Monday, Patrick I" That St. Patrick chained the serpent ser-pent and that the serpent calls out to him every Monday morning, is st 11 firmly believed by those who live in the neighborhood of the Lough, One of the better known of all the legends dealing with St. Patrick, Pat-rick, is how he was responsible for the Shamrock becoming the familiar fam-iliar Irish emblem. The legend, which has been recounted re-counted in the famous Rust Craft "Legend Series" of greeting card, reads: "Long ago, when Ireland was the land of the Druids, there wa a great bishop, Patrick, by name, who came to teach the word of Cod throughout the country. "Thi Saint, for he wa indeed a aint, wa well-loved everywhere he went. One day, however, a group of hi follower came to him and admitted that it waa difficult for them to believe in the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. "St. Patrick reflected a moment and then atooping down he plucked a leaf from the Shamrock and held it before them, bidding them to behold be-hold the living example of th 'three in one.' "The simple beauty of this explanation ex-planation convinced these skeptics and from that day the shamrock has been revered throughout Ireland." Ire-land." Today, on the 1 7th of March, wherever true Sons of Erin gather, the Shamrock is proudly worn as a symbol of the faith that '.... Ireland. ST- PATRICK'S DAY OBSERVED TODAY This year marks the fifteen hundredth hun-dredth anniversary of the death of St. Patrick historical authorities have set 461 A.D. as the year of his death. Through the centuries, many legends and controversies have a-risen a-risen surrounding the life of - St. Patrick. Almost as many countries claim the honor of having been the natal soil of St. Patrick, for example, as made a similar claim with respect to Homer. Scotland, England, France and Wales have each furnished fur-nished their respective pretentions. Whatever doubts may obscure his birthplace, however, he came from a patrician family, as his name implies. When St. Patrick was 16 years old, he was carried off by pirates, who later sold him into slavery in Ireland. Hi master worked him as a swineherd on the well known mountain of Sleamish, in the county of Antrim. Here St. Patrick lived for seven years, acquiring a knowledge knowl-edge of the Irish language, as well as their manners, habits and customs. cus-toms. St. Patrick eventually escaped |