The best account we have is the Life of St. Patrick by a scholar named Muirchú. This hagiography–or biography of a saint–was written in the late 600s. The hagiography is more of a religious ...

Saint Patrick is most famous for being Ireland's patron saint and is celebrated around the world, even by non-Irish people, on St. Patrick’s Day. This is not only the date of his death ...

Hagiographies (writing on the lives of saints) give us a glimpse of the food culture of early medieval Ireland, when Patrick ...

Patrick’s Day has been celebrated in Ireland every year on 17 March. Over the years, the religious holiday commemorating the death of Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, has ...

(The site biography.com notes ... As Wikipedia notes, “The symbolic resonance of the Saint Patrick figure is complex and multifaceted, stretching from that of Christianity’s arrival ...

(The site biography.com notes ... So where’s the freaking bruschetta?” Icon of Saint Patrick from Christ the Savior Orthodox Church in Wayne, West Virginia. T-shirts that read “St.

Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying ... with the most revered and venerated memory of our patron Saint.” Since the 12th century, Ireland had been a colony of Great Britain.