St. Patrick's day, beer, snakes or massacre  

I was never insinuating that St. Patrick was massacred. I was thinking more of the "snakes". Or the poor people that have been represented in history with an association to serpents and the devil. And I'm not so sure that the Irish at the time really appreciated being converted to Catholicism. Like most holidays with religious origins though ( christmas and easter adn valentines day ect.) I don't see the meaning being that important to those that celebrate anymore. I'm almost glad that people just blindly celebrate these days and have a good time. It does sadden me to see the lack of historical education on the origins of these days in the US public school systems. Thanks for your reply all the same. This is why I left no explanation to the origin of the day. I figured I'd leave it up to people to tell the dozens of reasons they think that St. Patrick became a saint. Poor poor pagan people. Too bad that freedom of religion wasn't a bigger idea back then. Heck, even I got drunk and had fun with my friends. Thanks mike. good to hear the queen was out and about. cheers