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The staff of j. p.
thibodeaux inc. would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family
a happy st. patrick's day.
you may not find a pot of
gold here at j. p. thibodeaux inc., but you can surely save a pot of gold here
during the march midnight madness sales.
Saint
Patrick's Day (March
17th), is an Irish holiday honoring Saint Patrick, the missionary credited with
converting the Irish to Christianity (in the A.D. 400's). .
Saint
Patrick was not actually Irish.
Historical sources report that he was born around 373 A.D. in either Scotland
(near the town of Dumbarton) or in Roman Britain (the Romans left Britain in 410
A.D.). His real name is believed to be Maewyn Succat (he took on Patrick, or
Patricus, after he became a priest). He was kidnapped at the age of 16 by
pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland. During his 6-year captivity (he worked
as a shepherd), he began to have religious visions, and found strength in his
faith. He finally escaped (after voices in one of his visions told him where he
could find a getaway ship) and went to France, where he became a priest (and
later a bishop).
When
he was about 60 years old, St. Patrick traveled to Ireland to spread the
Christian word. It's said that Patrick had an unusually winning personality, and
that helped him win converts. He used the shamrock, which resembles a
three-leafed clover, as a metaphor to explain the concept of the Trinity
(father, son, holy spirit).
Legend
has it that
Saint Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland -- that they all went into the
sea and drowned. The snake was a revered pagan symbol, and perhaps this was a
figurative tale alluding to the fact that he drove paganism out of Ireland.
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