Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1915 — Ireland’s Patron Saint [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ireland’s Patron Saint

On March 17, in or about the year 465, St. Patrick, consecrated bishop of Ireland, died at Saul, in County Down, Ireland, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. Today, more than fourteen centuries later, his day is celebrated with reverence and with rejoicing throughout the English speaking world, for the Irish are everywhere, and nowhere now are they hanging men and women, too, for the wearing of the green.