Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! 
Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. He was born in Britain, but was kidnapped by Irish raiders and sold as a slave in Ireland. He wrote this about that time period in his life, “The love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same. I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.”
He escaped and went back to Britain. Later in his life, he became a Christian missionary and spread the Gospel to those in Ireland, leading to many conversions to Christianity. We often see a four-leaf clover as a symbol of St. Patrick’s Day, but Saint Patrick actually used a three-leaf clover as a teaching symbol to explain the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). Just something to think about this St. Patrick’s Day!
