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Encyclopedia: Saint Patrick's Day

Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá 'le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is the feast day which annually celebrates Saint Patrick (385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, on March 17, the day on which Saint Patrick died. The day is the national holiday of the Irish people. It is a Bank Holiday in Northern Ireland, and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Montserrat, and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. In the rest of Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.

It became a feast day in the Roman Catholic Church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding^[1] in the early part of the 17th century, and is a holy day of obligation in the Roman Catholic church in Ireland.

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How to say "Saint Patrick's Day" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	聖パトリックの祝日
	(German)	St. Patrick's Day
	(Spanish)	Día de San Patricio
	(French)	Fête de la Saint-Patrick

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Today FM

Today FM formerly called Radio Ireland is Ireland's only independent national commercial radio station, their are many other independent local commercial stations. The station commenced broadcasting on Saint Patrick's Day in 1997...

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List of commemorative days

' Day Programmer's day Saint Patrick's Day Shrove Tuesday Valentine's Day Veterans Day Victory in... The following is a list of observed commemorative days , that is, days that are used by various... celebrate something. Australia Day ANZAC Day April Fools Day Arbor Day Bank Holiday Chinese New...

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Tipperary Hill

is the light. Also, on the eve of every Saint Patrick's Day, someone (or ones) go out and paint the yellow strip in the center of the road green in time for the Saint Patrick's Day parade...

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Bank Holiday

-law holidays there. In 1903, the Bank Holiday (Ireland) Act added 17th March, Saint Patrick's Day... Holidays Prior to 1834, the Bank of England observed about thirty-three saints' days and religious... 1 January New Year's Day 2 January (Scotland only) 17 March St Patrick's Day (Northern Ireland...

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

taking a job with a prestigious Wall Street firm. On Friday, Saint Patrick's Day, 1905, he married... for Rehabilitation, which continues to help others with disabilities to this day. [2] Government...). Roosevelt's first weeks in office were called The Hundred Days, as during the first part of his...

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Irish calendar

March 13 - 1979: Ireland joins new European Monetary System (EMS) March 17 - Saint Patrick's Day... European Union, hosts a Day of Welcomes for the ten accession states. May 2 - 1872: St. Patrick's... - All Saints Day and Lá Samhna (November Day), the first day of Winter for Irish Roman Catholics...

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Chicago, Illinois

Chicago Jazz Festival Chicago Venetian Night Chicago SummerDance[2] Saint Patrick's Day parade when... to which several skyscrapers pay homage, and is further enhanced yearly on St. Patrick's Day, when it... 27, the Chicago Race Riot of 1919. 1929: February 14, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. 1933...

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