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world donned their best green attire every march 17th to celebrate saint patrick's day

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but there is a lot we bet you didn't know about ireland's patron saints to start with saint

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patrick wasn't even irish he was born around the 5th century in britain then part of the roman

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empire at 16 he was kidnapped by irish raiders and spent six years in captivity he converted to

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Christianity and later returned to Ireland to spend the rest of his life

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working as a Christian missionary after Patrick died on March 17th 461 he was

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largely forgotten until mythology and legend grew and centuries later he was

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honored as the patron saint of Ireland according to one famous myth Patrick

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drove all the snakes from Ireland the story symbolized Patrick cleansing the

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island of paganism there's just one problem Ireland never had any snakes