For more than 1000 years, St. Patrick’s Day has been celebrated in Ireland every year on 17 March. Over the years, the ...

NEW YORK -- If it's March, and it's green, it must be St. Patrick's Day. The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration of Irish heritage. And nowhere is that more so than in ...

Ireland is not the only country where St Patrick is a patron saint. In 1961, the same year Ireland opened an embassy in Lagos, Irish bishops named St Patrick the patron saint of Nigeria.

St. Patrick, Ireland's patron saint, used the shamrock to explain the Christian Holy Trinity―God as three in one―said Parkes, Bishop of Savannah, during the Mass in honor of St. Patrick.