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It was Saturday On March 16th,
2009 while Chicago river turned green from 9am and kept green for 5 hours. Also,
a lot of citizens wear green clothes, green hats or green necklaces on that
day. They were celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.
St. Patrick’s Day is on March
17th, the death of saint patrick, Ireland's most celebrated patron
saint. It is to specifically commemorate
Saint Patrick and the subsequent arrival of Christianity in Ireland. It was
mostly celebrated in Ireland and became popular in The United States because of
the immigration. Many cities celebrated St. Patrick’s Day differently in The
United States.
The first-time celebrating was in New York, in 1762. Today,
people celebrate it as much as the Irish culture.
In st. Patrick’s day, people
wear in green clothes and shamrocks. Some people eat traditional Irish meat of
corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and soda bread. People in Ireland go to church
in the morning. Chicago has dyed Chicago river into green to celebrate it for
over 50 years. Also, Chicago has parade on st. Patrick’s Day.
I was so interested with the
river dyeing, so I wore a green coat and went to Chicago downtown to watch the
green river with my classmate, Yongyi. We meet in Chinatown in the morning and
took the train to state street. We saw that there were a lot of people in green
dress on the road. They walked by groups, and they met friends on the road randomly.
We walked through Columbus street and arrived at the Millennium Park. There
were a lot of people and policemen there. We could not go to the park because
it was forbidden. We just followed the parades, and then we arrived to the
riverwalk.
The river was so green that
caught my eyes at once. In addition, there was so crowded and hardly to move. Everyone
there was excitedly talking photos. So did we. On the other hand, I was worried
about losing my phone into the water when I took photos standing on the bridge.
Moreover, lights in the city all turned green. Overall, I had a great day.
I had researched some websites
about the st. Patrick’s Day before I went to sleep at that day. Saint patrick
was a 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland,
and he was known as the "Apostle of Ireland". He had a very hard childhood,
and he helped a lot of people before he had gone in Ireland. Also, the was a “two
Patricks” theory, which was proposed by T. F. O'Rahilly. However, St
Patrick’s Day celebrated Ireland as a religious and cultural holiday for so
many years. In the dioceses of Ireland, it is both a solemnity and a holy day
of obligation, and also a celebration of Ireland itself.
