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16/03/2020

St Patrick’s Day

March 17th is the day that those who celebrate ‘Saints’ Days’ remember Patrick, the British evangelical Christian who evangelised Ireland. Many people across the wold use this anniversary as an excuse for drunken parties, many of them involving excesses of Guinness. Once wonders why.

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St Patrick’s Saltire, the real flag of Patrick, and part of the British ‘Union Flag’

Here’s two related articles; on Patrick, and on Arthur Guinness, who most certainly would NOT have approved of the modern St Patrick’s Day.

Patrick
Arthur Guinness

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