St. Patrick's Day 2015

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Saint Patrick’s Day CEIP Marqués del Arco. March 2015

Transcript of St. Patrick's Day 2015

Saint Patrick’s Day

CEIP Marqués del Arco. March 2015

St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. He was born in the fourth century and is famous for bringing Christianity into Ireland.It is on the 17th of March.

The Saint Patrick’s Day parade in New York is one of the biggest parades in the world.

St. Patrick’s Day is a very well known Irish national holiday, which is celebrated not only in Ireland but all around the world.

The colour green is symbolic on this special day. Other symbols associated with Saint Patrick’s Day include rainbows with pots of gold, shamrocks, leprechauns, and four-leaved clovers.

Chicago River dyed green in annual St. Patrick’s Day tradition

In 1962, while the city's pollution control workers were trying

to identify trace sewage in the river using various chemicals,

they dyed the river green. This accidental coincidence

became the inspiration for a peculiar Chicago tradition.

•You are lucky if you find a four-leaved clover.•Legend says that St. Patrick used the shamrock to visually illustrate the concept of the Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit)

Leprechauns are little Irish fairies, and they work as shoe-makers for other fairies. The Irish say that if a leprechaun is caught by a human, he will reveal where he hides his pot of gold. On this day, pictures of shamrocks and leprechauns are hung everywhere. Some people even dress up as leprechauns complete with their big green hats.

A popular belief is that you may find a leprechaun and his pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

St Patrick's Day is traditionally a day of

dancing, drinking and feasting in honor of

St Patrick.

Transform

yourself into the

flag of Ireland!

Celebrations around the world

World goes green for St. Patrick’s Day!!!

The Empire State Building,

New York City, The Leaning Tower of

Pisa, Italy

London Eye, London, England

The CN Tower, Toronto, Canada Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa

White House Fountain,

Washington D.C. Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

Burj Al Arab, Dubai, U.A.E.

Allianz Arena, Munich, Germany

The little Mermaid,Copenhagen,Denmark

The Great Wall of China