St. Patricks Day

On March 17 in 461 A.D. a guy originally named Maewyn Succat died. So why do we celebrate his death when there are people dieing every day? We do because he spent thirty years in Ireland trying to spread Christianity. But before all of this happened he was born somewhere around the fourth century and took the name Patrick after becoming a priest. At the age of sixteen he was kidnapped from his native land of Britain by a band of pirates and was sold to slavery in Ireland. He worked as a shepard and turned to religion for solace. After six years he escaped and went to the northern coast of Gaul. He then thought it was his destiny to convert pagans of Ireland to Christianity. St. Patrick was sixty years old when he arrived in Ireland and was said to have a winning personality that helped him win converts. Patrick was arrested several times but every time he escaped. Legend has it that St. Patrick drove all of the snakes out of Ireland.