For most of its history, it wasn’t the wonderful holiday that we make it out to be, but rather the celebration of the death of Jesus Christ. Good Friday is a holiday that was born out of betrayal, greed, and execution. Before the contemporary world got hold of it, the holiday was celebrated by fasting, by asking for forgiveness from sin, and by general sorrow-filled reflection on behalf of the practitioners. However, Good Friday came from the ancient Germanic culture and language and was long ago Karfreitag (“Sorrowful Friday”). Odd beginnings for a holiday of green beer, fun, and leprechauns.įor a holiday with such a nice name as Good Friday, its historical origins are rather dark in nature. Patrick, and it was attributed to a divine miracle that the battle was stopped. Both sides walked away with what they believed to be the body of St. Allegedly, the river rose up and flooded upon their arrival. It concludes with a scene where the rival factions end up on a river to do glorious, bloody battle for the rights to the corpse of the beloved saint. However, things get a little mythological in the account in Annals of the Four Masters, the work that describes the battle. The Battle for the Body of Saint Patrick took place when two rival factions fought over who had the proper rights to the corpse. Even more dark and unusual than that are the events that ensued after his death. Patrick’s Day is a celebration of the day of his death. However, historians generally agree that he actually died in 461, which is a bit more realistic. He was said to have died on March 17, 493, which would have made him over 100 years old. Patrick managed to escape slavery and become a force for Christianity by converting the then-pagan Irish to the religion and establishing monasteries and places of worship. Patrick was just a 16-year-old boy who was captured and taken to Ireland from Britain as a slave. When the Romans occupied Great Britain in the fifth century, St. It’s actually the celebration of the death of St. Patrick’s Day has always been a religious holiday, but Irish immigrants who came to the United States in search of a better life greatly popularized it as a secular holiday, solidifying it as a representation of Irish culture.īut the holiday didn’t have a happy-go-lucky beginning. Patrick’s Day as a fun festival marked by the consumption of copious amounts of beer. Most of us in the Western world who celebrate the holiday, especially if we’re not particularly religious or even armchair historians, think of St.
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