The name of this saint was Maewyn Succat and he was born in a small Scottish town at the end of the fourth century. He arrived in Ireland after escaping from pirates, and from there he spent six years learning the Celtic language. He went to France to be a priest and changed his name to Patricius, with 46 years he decided to return to Ireland to evangelize its inhabitants, and there he remained until his death.

2. The green that I love you blue

In the celebrations of St. Patrick, everything is dyed green, but in fact, the original color with which the order of St. Patrick was identified was light blue.

The use of the green color for this holiday began to spread by the color of the shamrocks of the Irish independence movement at the end of the 18th century, and if on March 17, there is some clueless who goes out without something green, it is tradition to give him a pinch.

3. Alcohol Prohibited

During most of the twentieth century, St. Patrick’s Day was considered a strictly religious holiday, which meant that the pubs were closed that day, so there was neither beer nor any excess. The 1903 law was annulled in 1970 and beer ran again through the streets.

4. The first parade was not in Ireland

Everyone who lives in Boston will claim, at some point, that they have Irish roots, even if it is not entirely true. But there will be something when the first celebration of St. Patrick’s Day took place, in 1737, in this city, long before the first parade in Ireland, in 1931.

5. New York, the place of the biggest parade

Although the Dublin parade is the most famous, the largest and most impressive takes place in New York, where Fifth Avenue is “taken” by goblins and floats adorned with green. More than two million people attend each year.

6. A green river?

And although everything turns green, including beers, this tradition reaches its maximum madness in the city of Chicago, where the waters of the Chicago River have been dyed green since 1962, but using a mixture of biodegradable vegetable dye that does not contaminate.

7. Not without my Guinness

Guinness beer sales soar on St. Patrick’s Day. The average is 5.5 million pints of black beer in the world day. That day, that figure doubles, according to an estimate by WalletHub, there will be 13 million Guinness pints consumed this year.

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