A popular St. Patrick's Day tradition is wearing green clothing. What does the green symbolize?
1 Ireland is known as "The Emerald Isle," and emerald = green, so green is the color of Ireland and thus of St. Patrick's Day. The green, also represents the Irish Catholic population. On this day the Irish Protestants will wear Orange which is symbolic of Irish Protestants.
Irish Protestants don't celebrate St. Patricks day.. On the Irish flag, there is an orange stripe, a green stripe and a white stripe. The orange is for the Protestants, the green is for the Catholics and the white is for the hope of peace between the two.
Well, we all know that if you DON'T wear green, you will get pinched! I don't have any on now, but it's just the dog and me and she doesn't have an opposable thumb to do any pinching with! (she's wearing a green collar or I would pinch her!).
? Why DO we wear green on St. Patrick's Day? Good question, curiouskitty!
"A major misconception is the association of St. Patrick with the color green. The confusion arises from the phrase "the wearing of the green," which means to wear a shamrock. St. Patrick used the three-leaved plant to explain the Trinity of the Christian religion.
Actually blue is the color associated with St. Patrick. "St. Patrick's blue" can be seen on ancient Irish flags." So I guess we should really be wearing blue.....but green is also associated with Ireland being considered the "Emerald Isle", as it's so green....and the Irish connect green to fairies, angels, saints, and other holy things...and St. Patrick is, after all, a saint.
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