What do Shamrocks have to do with St. Patrick’s Day?
What do Shamrocks have to do with St. Patrick’s Day? Shamrocks are actually a three leafed clover and represent the three beings of the Holy Trinity. According to legend, St. Patrick himself used a Shamrock to symbolize that its three leaves represent the Holly Trinity and that the one God (the stem) has three divine beings – The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
So the Shamrock is one other way like wearing green to symbolize St Patrick on St. Patrick’s Day itself. St Patrick’s Day is now celebrated around the world on March 17th. Throughout the US it has become another popular holiday.
In order to make the people understand the doctrine of the Trinity—that there are three beings who make up one divine God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—St. Patrick drew an analogy by picking a shamrock and showing that its three leaves were on only one stem. The shamrock was already a sacred plant in ancient Ireland because it symbolized the rebirth of Spring. Shamrocks, of course, are green, hence the stipulation that one must wear green on St. Patrick’s Day! How We Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? St. Patrick’s Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, has been celebrated by the Irish since the 17th century. Interestingly, Irish soldiers serving in the English military held the first St. Patrick’s Day parade on March 17, 1762 in New York. In 1848, a group of New York Irish aid societies united their parades to form one New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the world’s oldest civilian parade and the largest in the county, with more than 150,000 participants featu
