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Show How Come the Shamrock? March came in with a strong breeze that played with every hat and skirt. With the breeze came the first breath of spring, and the trees and plants started to show the first signs of life. This month is noted for its holiday that falls on March 17 St. Patrick's Day. To find out why the Shamrock is a symbol of Ireland, you would have to journey back into the history of that country 1,500 years. One day in Ireland the holy Saint Patrick was preaching to the natives. "You tell us that there are three Gods, and yet one," wonderingly said the natives. "How can that) be?" For an answer the saint bent over and plucked a shamrock growing at his feet. "Do you not see," he said, "how in this wild flower three leaves are united on one stalk, and will you not then believe what I tell you, that there are indeed three persons and yet one God?" St. Patrick was the first man to introduce Christianity to the Irish barbarians, and legends leg-ends say that at his death, so great was the glory, that there was no night for 12 days. |