Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1884 — Erin’s Symbol of the Shamrock. [ARTICLE]

Erin’s Symbol of the Shamrock.

It is an old tradition that St. Patrick, preaching one day on a grassy mound, and explaining the doctrine of the Trinity, one of the bystanders asked: “How could there be three in one?” St. Patrick, stooping down, plucked a Shamrock from the turf,', and, pointing to the three leaves united in one stem, told them it was an illustration of what he was endeavoring to explain. From that day the Shamrock became the emblem of Ireland.