St. Patrick’s Day is famous for wearing green and lifting a Guinness while toasting to health: “Sláinte!” (Listen to the pronunciation of sláinte). There are many wonderful traditions and legends surrounding this holiday, but St. Patrick was a real bishop with remarkable accomplishments in Catholic history. St. Patrick St. Patrick was born in Roman Britain around 385 A.D. At age sixteen, he was captured by Irish pirates and kept as a slave for … Read entire article »