{"id":25161,"date":"2016-03-17T12:16:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T17:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/?p=25161"},"modified":"2016-03-17T12:16:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T17:16:34","slug":"thetruthaboutstpatricksday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somewhatnerdy.com\/home\/thetruthaboutstpatricksday\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth about St. Patrick’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

So this is a little bit of a different post for SomewhatNerdy, but since it’s St. Patrick’s Day, I figured a little Nerd history would be a good fit for it. So crack a beer, toast the Irish, and read about the strange history behind St. Patrick’s Day!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

We all love St. Patrick\u2019s Day, well any excuse to drink right? It\u2019s a fun holiday celebrating Irish heritage and where everything is\u00a0green, the clothes, the decorations, the beer, the shits you get after the green beer\u2026But what do we really know about St.\u00a0Patrick? I mean, he must\u2019ve been a really cool Saint who partied hard on the blood of Christ. He was Irish after all.<\/p>\n

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Patrick…You’re partied out again!<\/em><\/p>\n

Wait\u2026No he wasn\u2019t. He wasn\u2019t Irish, but I\u2019m getting ahead of myself. That\u2019s just the foam on this beer of truth.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the \u201cTwo Patrick\u201d theory most historians believe. Meaning, the church heroics of St. Patrick are suspected to be a\u00a0combination of things done by Palladius and Patrick. Considering these two lived so long ago and there are very few written\u00a0accounts and even fewer that were dated, historians surmise this theory is super true based on science and written clues that\u00a0each holy dude faced in their respective times. They were active in Ireland about 50 years apart, give or take and each one had\u00a0things credited to St. Patrick. So St. Patrick is like Voltron, fusing each individual together making a super robot priest made of\u00a0metal lions. Damn, that would be cool.<\/p>\n

The actual Patrick wrote two letters to make people think \u201chey this is the dude that cleansed the Emerald Isle of snakes\u201d (also\u00a0not true. Snakes never lived on Ireland\u2026ever. Cloaked human sacrificing pagans, sure, but no snakes.) In the first letter he\u00a0states that at a very young age he was captured from Northern England and brought to Ireland as a slave. He escaped and\u00a0made it back to England where he went into the clergy like his father before him and his before him\u2026seriously. I\u2019m not sure if it\u00a0was the celibate Catholic clergy or one of those that are lenient on horizontal happy dancing, but they were in some sort of\u00a0church. After his death (which is March 17th. That\u2019s St. Patirck\u2019s Day for those of you keeping track at home) he was proclaimed\u00a0a Saint and the patron saint of Ireland, beer fueled ginger fights, and potato eating. I can\u2019t confirm the last two for sure, but I bet\u00a0those are real things. However, his sainthood was never actually fully canonized by the Pope. So he\u2019s not an official, official saint\u00a0according to Catholic doctrine.<\/p>\n

And then on top of the shit storm that is St. Patrick\u2019s muddy background, there is no official account where his body is laid to\u00a0rest. My theory is, he actually was a leprechaun and went back to the end of the rainbow where he hangs out with Lisa Frank\u00a0and people who love Skittles.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m so wasted. I hope this tiny church is filled with cookies.\u201d ~St. Patrick (Probably)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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