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Show OGDEN SONS OF ERIN HONOR PATRON SAINT Too Impatient to -wait until tho dawn of March 17, famous wherever Irishmen have penetrated, -which Is equivalent to saying ail over the world lovers of Erin In Ogden are already to be seen on tho streets of the city with the color of tho Emerald Islo in their buttonholes, giving a forecast of w hat will be the general color scheme when the morning of St. Patrick's day rolls around tomorrow. Preparations for numerous entertainments In honor hon-or of (be Patron Saint of Ireland havo ben made and present conditions indicate in-dicate that St Patrick's day of 1910 in Ogden will be more fully and fitly celebrated than evef before. While nearly everyouo In any way connected with the Celts Is familiar with the many anecdotes told concerning concern-ing St. Patrick, how ho drove all the snakes out of Ireland and many others, oth-ers, but few know much of tho origin and early history of tho famous Saint, in whose honor March 17 in celebrated celebrat-ed wherever the Irish or their descendants des-cendants are congregated. St. Patrick Pat-rick was a leading Irish missionary of the fifth renlury, and is sometimes known as the "Apostle of Ireland." The most generally accepted story of bis birth claims Bonavcm Taberniae, near the Sol way and south' of the wall of Servhis, in C37 A. D., os the plncc and year, but some authorities claim that the great Saint was born at Dumbarton. According to ancient biographers, his father was a deacon named Colpnrnls and his mother was named fetiches or C'onchessa, and was a slsler of St. Martin of Toura. According to tho same authorities, the, family n.ime of the great Saint was Succat, the first name Palrloius, by which ho vas'lknovn, being from the Roman. Sold Into Slavery. When a boy of sixteen St. Fatrlck was seized by u band of robbers and sold into slavery to a petty chief tan of Ireland. whre ho remained six years, finally fsraplng and devoting his timo and efforts to the conversion of the Irish mtlon. It Is lold of him that ho was started on his lifo w ork of conversl n by a vision and a voice calling blm to labor in Ireland Hid attempts m' with the greatest of success from the start, he being gifted with greaC "eloquence, and appealing ap-pealing first to th6 chieftans of the various localities in which be labored, bapti.ed them first and then working among the subjects. The Saint Is said to have shown great sagacity and enthusiasm In his labors, appealing appeal-ing to the spirit lad clanship in the furtherance of his work. According to the accounts of tho Irish biographers, St Patrick founded 3C5 churches and baptized with his own hands 12,000 'of tho people, not to mention numerous chleftans, and a great number of prlestn whom he ordained or-dained nnd many ' Monks and Nuns whom he blepse-d. Tho Saint is said to have fixed hh See at Armagh after 22 years of effort and two of his disciples dis-ciples being ordained bishops he held synods and decrees of which havo since been the cause of much controversy. contro-versy. St. Patrick died at a place called Saul, which Is still venerated by the people and where his remains wero kept until after the reformation. It U said of the present date celebrated cele-brated a6 the anniversary of tho saint that It was decided upon by the unique method of adding together 8 and 9. as sumo doubt as to which of these two dates was the correct ono was shown and adherents of each refused to celebrate except on the date they advocated. Finally tho expedient of adding togther tho two dates was taken tak-en to solve tho problem and do away with the discussion, o that today, March 17 is celebrated all over the world by Irishmen and their descendants descend-ants as the anniversary of their patron pa-tron Salut. f , March 17 Is also Hie anniversary of Gen. P. Edward O'Connor, pioneer pion-eer mining man of Utah and founder of Fort Douglas. , Several special features fea-tures have boen planned by the loyal Celts of Ogden for the celebration of the day and altogether March 17 gives promise of going down in Ogden history his-tory as a "green" letter day among It's Celtic people. |