Lá Fhéile Phádraig Sona Dhaoibh! (Happy Saint Patrick's Day)
Saint Patrick's Day is most associated with Catholics but it is also a holiday for Anglicans, Lutherans, and Orthodox Christians. St. Patrick was not even Irish. He was born to a Roman father in Britain (which was all Celtic then this is before the Normans and Anglo-saxons). He was captured by Irish raiders and brought to Ireland as a slave. After working as a slave for several years he escaped, returned to Britain and eventually became a priest. But Ireland never left him and he came to believe it was his calling to return to the land that enslaved him and to convert the Irish from paganism to Christianity. After having a dream during which he was given a letter by a man from Ireland called "The Voice of the Irish" saying "Holy boy, we beg you to come and walk among us once more" he decided to return to Ireland. He wasn't the first Christian missionary to Ireland but he was the most successful one and is remembered because of the books he wrote detailing his missionary work and for the network of Churches he established centered around Armagh. He is the Patron Saint of Ireland and also New York.