Patty Cake, Patty Cake
Happy St. Patrick's Day! We've been celebrating this Irish holiday all weekend. St. Pat was the most well known patron saint in Ireland and given credit for championing Christianity in Ireland. He was born in Roman England and lived in the fourth century. Not much is known about Pat, but legend has it that he taught Irishmen about the Holy Trinity by using a shamrock. Also, the original color associated with St. Patrick was blue, but it morphed into green over the years perhaps to match the shamrock. St. Patrick's Day is an official holiday in Ireland and an unofficial one everywhere else. Guinness beer coined a marketing campaign years back stating, "Everyone's Irish on March 17th." Indeed some interesting traditions have been created outside of Ireland for example drinking green beer, pinching someone if they don't wear green, a lot of merriment and raising of glasses and participating in parades. The city of Chicago even dyes the Chica