Happy St. Patrick's Day
Checkers wishes everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day
We may all be a little bit Irish today, but how many of us know how St. Patrick's Day began? How many of us know who the real St. Patrick really was?
"Well he was not a leprechaun who drank green beer or had a blarney stone or a pot of gold," explains historian William Federer, who wrote St. Patrick: The Real History of His Life, From Tragedy to Triumph. "He was actually a missionary and he converted 120,000 druids from paganism to Christianity."
In fact, Federer contends that in the fifth century A.D., Patrick did more than perhaps anyone in history to spread this new religion through Europe.
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Posted: 3/17/2009 2:36:14 PM