{"id":497,"date":"2025-03-10T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=497"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:47:35","slug":"march-17-2013-saint-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/03\/10\/march-17-2013-saint-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"March 17, 2025: Saint Patrick\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Saint-Patricks-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-498\" title=\"Saint Patrick's Day\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Saint-Patricks-Day-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Saint Patrick\u2019s Day<\/strong>\u00a0(<a title=\"Irish language\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irish_language\">Irish<\/a>:\u00a0<em>L\u00e1 Fh\u00e9ile P\u00e1draig<\/em>;\u00a0<a title=\"Ulster Scots dialects\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ulster_Scots_dialects\">Ulster-Scots<\/a>:\u00a0<em>Saunt Petherick\u2019s Day<\/em>)\u00a0is a cultural and\u00a0<a title=\"Religious holiday\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Religious_holiday\">religious holiday<\/a>\u00a0celebrated internationally on 17 March. It commemorates\u00a0<a title=\"Saint Patrick\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Patrick\">Saint Patrick<\/a>\u00a0(<abbr title=\"circa\">c.<\/abbr>\u00a0AD 387\u2013461), the most commonly recognised of the\u00a0<a title=\"Patron saint\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patron_saint\">patron saints<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"Ireland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ireland\">Ireland<\/a>, and the arrival of\u00a0<a title=\"Christianity in Ireland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_in_Ireland\">Christianity in Ireland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is observed by the\u00a0<a title=\"Catholic Church\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catholic_Church\">Catholic Church<\/a>, the\u00a0<a title=\"Anglican Communion\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anglican_Communion\">Anglican Communion<\/a>\u00a0(especially the\u00a0<a title=\"Church of Ireland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Church_of_Ireland\">Church of Ireland<\/a>),\u00a0the\u00a0<a title=\"Eastern Orthodox Church\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_Orthodox_Church\">Eastern Orthodox Church<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Lutheranism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lutheranism\">Lutheran Church<\/a>. Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day was made an official\u00a0<a title=\"Calendar of saints\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Calendar_of_saints\">feast day<\/a>\u00a0in the early 17th century, and has gradually become a secular celebration of\u00a0<a title=\"Culture of Ireland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Culture_of_Ireland\">Irish culture<\/a>\u00a0in general.<\/p>\n<p>The day is generally\u00a0characterized\u00a0by the attendance of\u00a0<a title=\"Church service\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Church_service\">church services<\/a>,\u00a0wearing of green attire (especially\u00a0<a title=\"Shamrock\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shamrock\">shamrocks<\/a>),\u00a0and the lifting of\u00a0<a title=\"Lenten\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lenten\">Lenten<\/a>\u00a0restrictions on\u00a0<a title=\"Fasting\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fasting#Christianity\">eating<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Christianity and alcohol\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christianity_and_alcohol\">drinking alcohol<\/a>,\u00a0which is often proscribed during the rest of the\u00a0<a title=\"Liturgical year\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liturgical_year\">season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day is a public holiday in the\u00a0<a title=\"Republic of Ireland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_Ireland\">Republic of Ireland<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Northern Ireland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_Ireland\">Northern Ireland<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Newfoundland and Labrador\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newfoundland_and_Labrador\">Newfoundland and Labrador<\/a>\u00a0and in\u00a0<a title=\"Montserrat\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montserrat\">Montserrat<\/a>. It is also widely celebrated by the\u00a0<a title=\"Irish diaspora\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irish_diaspora\">Irish diaspora<\/a>, especially in places such as Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia, and New Zealand, among others. Today, St. Patrick&#8217;s Day is probably the most widely celebrated saints day in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Patrick\u2019s Day\u00a0(Irish:\u00a0L\u00e1 Fh\u00e9ile P\u00e1draig;\u00a0Ulster-Scots:\u00a0Saunt Petherick\u2019s Day)\u00a0is a cultural and\u00a0religious holiday\u00a0celebrated internationally on 17 March. It commemorates\u00a0Saint Patrick\u00a0(c.\u00a0AD 387\u2013461), the most commonly recognised of the\u00a0patron saints\u00a0of\u00a0Ireland, and the arrival of\u00a0Christianity in Ireland. It is observed by the\u00a0Catholic Church, the\u00a0Anglican Communion\u00a0(especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/03\/10\/march-17-2013-saint-patricks-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}