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St Patrick’s Day Traditions and symbols

Posted on 16 March 2010 by Editor

The origin of the Irish Day holiday St. Patrick’s is associated with many historical and folk traditions and symbols. If you are interested in making a PowerPoint presentation for ST. Patrick’s Day, you must first know the holidays. You can also upload PowerPoint to YouTube project after conversion to video compatible with PPT to Video Converter.

St. Patrick’s Day Symbol: Shamrock Shamrock Why is a symbol of St. Patrick? Partly because of abundant plant cover Ireland clover, and especially because of the strong association with Christianity. Shamrock is used to visually illustrate the concept of the Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) and St. Patrick tries to convert the pagan polytheistic Christianity.

“A clover is a plant with three leaves, but the three leaves are able to do [to complete],” explains Professor Mahony. “[The Christian] God is three persons, but this does not mean three gods.” The simple analogy helps non-Christians to understand a fundamental element of the Christian religion, which facilitates the conversion.

This adaptation history, Shamrock has been associated with St. Patrick of Ireland and conversion to Christianity. It is very used to celebrate St. Patrick, and in modern times has been affected & # xe9; by secular institutions, as a symbol for the Irish.

St Patrick’s Day Symbol: Most clover clover with three leaves, while the four clubs are rare. Find four-leaf clover is believed extreme happiness. Contrary to Shamrock, four-leaf clovers have no religious allusions in the context of St. Patrick. Each leaf of a four-leaf clover has its own meaning that hope, faith, love and happiness.

St Patrick’s Day Symbol: Leprechauns an elf looks like an old man and dresses like a shoemaker with a cocked hat and leather apron. Remote and hostile living alone and gnomes time to repair the shoes of Irish fairies.

Day St. Patrick’s Day: Parades, Shamrocks and dwarfs by Elaine Landau, the legend is that the payment of gnomes fairies for their work with parts of gold, the little people to gather in large pots – the famous pottery gold is often associated with gnomes.

Listen to the sound of the hammer, and you might be able to catch one! If you do you can force him (with the threat of physical violence) to reveal where his treasure. Be careful! Take your eyes off him, because if you think it will probably disappear and your hopes of finding his treasure will disappear with him.

St. Patrick’s Day Symbol: Green You know why people all wear green on St. Patrick? The tradition started by students. Green is the color of spring, the Shamrock, and is linked to hope and nature. Green used a color for flags of the various revolutionary groups in Ireland.

Moreover, Ireland has the name “Emerald Isle” because of its lush greenery. Prof. Mahony said: “One thing that strikes all the time how Ireland is incredibly green and very far North, but is not frozen. When people say that “Ireland has 40 shades of green, exactly!

St Patrick’s Day Tradition: The luck of the Irish Will you be lucky this St. Patrick? If you want, follow these tips:

Have A Wonderful Day St Patrick’s Day!

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