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By looking at these three pictures, can you guess what celebration this is?

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If you haven’t guessed it yet, here are three clues:

  1. This celebration is held annually on March 17th.
  2. This is the national holiday of Ireland.
  3. Corned beef and cabbage are traditional foods eaten on this holiday.

Did you guess it? It’s St. Patrick’s Day! St. Patrick’s Day is a cultural and religious celebration held annually on March 17th. This day marks the death of the patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick. St. Patrick’s Day falls in the fasting season of Lent, but on this day the prohibitions of eating meat were lifted. What began as a religious feast day has become an international festival celebrating Irish culture with dancing, parades, food, drinking, and a lot of green. The first recorded St. Patrick’s Day parade was held, not in Ireland, but in New York City in 1762. With the dramatic increase of Irish immigrants to the U.S., the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day became widespread and is now celebrated all over the world. To learn more about St. Patrick’s Day, click here.

Have you ever been to a St. Patrick’s Day parade? Do you celebrate this event where you live? If so, what do you do to celebrate it?

Information from: http://www.wilstar.com/, https://kidskonnect.com/, http://www.history.com/, and http://www.religionfacts.com/

Images by: Toni McGee Causey, Sergei Karpukhin/Corbis, http://alloveralbany.com/


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