The majority of St. Patrick’s Day customs, myths and fables have been perpetuated and instituted over a period of 16 centuries.
St. Patrick: Do you know the myth or the man?
Bishop grants dispensation for St. Patrick’s Day
Bishop Patrick Neary has granted Catholics in the diocese a dispensation from the obligation to abstain from meat on Friday, March 17.
Saint of the Week: St. Patrick
St. Patrick, the beloved patron of Ireland, is renowned as the bishop who brought Christianity to Ireland, who used the three-leaflet shamrock to teach about the Trinity, and wrote the often-recited prayer that begins, Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me.
St. Joseph’s Day can have its cake — and meat with it too
St. Joseph’s Day, on March 19, is on a Friday in Lent, a day Catholics are required to abstain from meat.
In new audio drama, St. Patrick ‘comes alive brilliantly,’ says actor
An eight-part audio drama was just-released and it is based on the history and writings of St. Patrick himself.