The Pilgrim Walk — that stretches 132km from Armagh to Downpatrick, and which this year celebrates its 10th anniversary ...

It was at Armagh that he erected his principal church, giving the city ... So, next time you travel to Ireland, do walk in the footsteps of St. Patrick – and you will surely have a trip worth ...

For more than 1000 years, St. Patrick’s Day has been celebrated in Ireland every year on 17 March ... as a symbol of the ...

Ireland elevates St. Brigid alongside St. Patrick, reclaiming its forgotten female saint and marking a dramatic shift from Catholic conservatism to progressive nation ...

Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP Initially, St. Patrick's Day was a solemn religious observance in Ireland, featuring church services and feasts in his honor. However, as Irish immigrants ...

In the old Irish calendar the day after St Patrick’s Day is Sheelah’s Day, in commemoration of the woman who many believe to have been Patrick’s wife. According to Shane Lehane, a folklorist at ...

Passmore World March 17, 2025 Inspired by St. Patrick’s Confessions, in which the patron of Ireland states ... St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church. The organizers said they hope other ...

America’s first St. Patrick’s Day celebration was in 1600 in the Spanish colony of present-day St. Augustine, Florida. Spanish colonial records mentioned a celebration for Saint Patrick in 1600 and ...

The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration of Irish heritage. And nowhere is that more so than in ...

Several centuries later, he was made a saint by the Catholic Church and like other saints ... or three-leaf clover, linked to Ireland and St. Patrick. The lucky ones, though, come across something ...

He then went back to the Celtic Pagan nation of Ireland and converted people to Catholicism. St. Patrick died on March 17, as recognized by the church. Waidler said it is hard to know the exact year.