ST. PATRICK’S DAY:
St. Patrick’s Day, held on March seventeenth, is the day to honor the Christian man named Saint Patrick, who was born in Britain in about 380 AD. Patrick was raised in a Christian family until he was kidnaped at age sixteen, and taken to Ireland to be a slave shepherd. After six years of praying, he escaped slavery. The voice of an angel named Victor spoke to him and said “Soon you will go to your own country. See, your ship is ready.” Yahuwah guided him as he walked two-hundred miles, and he reached the sea. There was a ship there, and he went back to Britain.
He studied religion in France and became a priest, and later a bishop. This is sounding too much like the story of St. Nicholas, who was evil. But what I’ve read on St. Patrick so far was good. He was born a hundred years after St. Nicholas. The same angel, Victor, showed him a vision in which he saw messages from the Irish people and heard their voices asking him to return. They said “Come walk among us once more.”116 Then he returned to Ireland to tell the people about ‘Jesus’.
The Druids, who ruled the Irish people, predicted that a stranger would come who would end their way of life. They tried to kill Bishop Patrick many times. Once they chained him in iron for fourteen days. Another time they put poison in his drink. It turned to ice and he tossed it from his cup. He told them about ‘Jesus’ and converted many Druid priests into Catholic priests. The Catholics were no piece of cake, in fact throughout history they have been very evil, but the Druids were satan worshippers. Maybe this was a step up at that time. He built churches and schools in Ireland.
Patrick used three-leafed clovers, called shamrocks, to explain the concept of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit being one God (not 3 different Gods, as in the trinity, but one God.) Seventy-thousand people were apparently born-again in thirty years because of his ministry. I have also heard that he was a Sabbath keeper. I don’t know how that worked, since he was a bishop, and the Catholics murdered Sabbath keepers a hundred years earlier.
He is known for supposedly driving all the snakes out of Ireland. It is said that they followed him to the sea and swam away. A friend borrowed his cloak once, and it protected him from being burned in a large fire.
On 3/17/471, Patrick died, and later the Catholic church made him a saint. People pray to him to thank him for miracles. They believe he watches over them, and is the one who decides if they can get into Heaven when they die. Once again, a good man who supposedly worked miracles by the power of Yahuwah was made into an idol after his death. We are supposed to pray to Yahuwah, not saints. And Yahushuwa is the one who decides who can enter Heaven, according to whether their name is in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
The Irish carried short oak clubs that came from the forest, with green ribbons tied around them. They came from the Shillelagh, an old oak forest. They believed the sprig of the Shillelagh would bring them good luck. This "good luck" idea is superstition and occult, and we should avoid it. Oak Clubs, 4-leaf clovers, horse-shoes, rabbit's feet, and other things do not bring us good luck! Carrying oak clubs comes from the Druids worshiping under the ‘sacred oak trees’.
The tradition about kissing the Blarney stone for good luck is occult. "Kissing Ireland's Blarney Stone, a tradition that's been around for several centuries, is said to give a person the gift of eloquence and persuasiveness. The iconic stone is set in a wall of Blarney Castle, constructed in 1446 by Dermot McCarthy, king of Munster, on the site of a demolished 13th century castle." - (from History.com) "The Blarney Stone (Irish: Cloch na Blarnan) is a block of Carboniferous limestone built into the battlements of Blarney Castle, Blarney, about 8 kilometres (5 miles) from Cork, Ireland. According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the gift of the gab (great eloquence or skill at flattery). The stone was set into a tower of the castle in 1446. The castle is a popular tourist site in Ireland, attracting visitors from all over the world to kiss the stone and tour the castle and its gardens." (from en.wikipedia.org)
We should not include the occult things if we choose to remember this man. Some people drink green beer and party in the bars on this day. We don't party nor hang out at bars, and we don't dress sleazy and get drunk! We sometimes eat some corned beef and cabbage and talk about the history of him occasionally, but don't 'celebrate' him. We just like corned beef and cabbage and this day reminds us of it so we make it sometimes.
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