Area towns to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
March 14, 2011 at 3:36 pm in Worthington Daily Globe
LUVERNE Did you know blue was once the color associated with Saint Patrick, or that the three-leaved shamrock was used by the patron saint of Ireland to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish people?
Saint Patrick’s Feast Day was created on the liturgical calendar in the early 1600s as a day when the Irish could forgo their Lenten obligations and celebrate with meat and drink. Continue Reading
