Throughout the ages, St. Patrick’s Day has been regarded as a simple holiday where kids go around pinching people and adults get drunk on green micro brew.

The history of St. Patrick’s Day is not known by many, even though it is one of the most celebrated feast days in the Christian faith.

St. Patrick’s Day was first an official holiday in Ireland in 1903, but has been celebrated as a liturgical holiday since the early fifth and sixth century in the Christian faith.

In the fourth century, St. Patrick was born to a wealthy class in England of a deacon father and grandfather. However, at an early age, he is said to have been kidnapped and taken to Ireland.

During captivity in the western coast of Ireland, he was told by God to flee from captivity and travel to the coast. And so he did, and upon arriving to the coast he returned to England.

From then on, he began to study as a priest and eventually was sent back to Ireland to convert the Pagan population to Catholicism.

Abundant in Ireland, clover or shamrocks were used by St. Patrick to show the Irish the strength of the Holy Trinity.

St. Patrick remained in Ireland as a priest until his death on March 17, 461.

His death is commemorated every year, and the center of this green holiday is centered around Downpatrick, the town in which he is told to have been buried. To show their belief and commemoration, celebrants wore blue until the early seventeenth century, when the color green became the proper color for the holiday.