Hi there my precious angel, it's Friday again woohoo, so let's start the PARTY yeahhhh lol, a nice glass of wine we shall have with our chat, and an equally nice treat to go with it, I have cooked up for us today "Chocolate and Rum Cream Baskets" enjoy my angel, it's sunny spells with cloud again today, so sharing what sun I have with you my sweet friend as always, hairdresser coming shortly to make me look nice for the PARTY, then it's enjoy myself all day before my trip out with friends on Saturday, well hunny I hope you enjoy the PARTY as much as I'm going too, wishing you a very blessed ...

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... Filled with awesome blessings of happiness, peace, health , love n light for you and your loved ones always, big warm hugs Sue xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi there my precious angel, my goodness it's nearly the weekend again amazing for sure, I hope you enjoyed your St Patty's day as I did, ok let's get down to the matter in hand our coffee, chat, and treat the highlight of my day, and we will have today "Double Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake" enjoy hunny, well I had a quiet Birthday lots of pressies and cards, with many congrats from you my dearest friends I love you all loads thank you so much, it's not so nice today sadly, but have enjoyed the nice weather I have had, I'm sharing my sunny spells with you as always, I hope to have a relaxing day, and I hope you can too, wishing you a beautiful ...

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... With much peace, health, happiness, joy, love n light for you and your loved ones always, big warm hugs Sue xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi there my precious angel, well it's St. Patrick's Day so we had better have something special to go with our coffee and chat, we will have St. Patty's Day Irish Cream Bundt Cake" I hope you will enjoy my hunny, not doing any housework today did it all yesterday so I could have today off to do my own thing for St. Patty's Day woohoo, it's going to be dry with sunny spells today so that's not bad, sharing my sunny spells with you of course, I hope you will have a day doing what you want to do too, wishing you a perfect ...

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May your St Patrick's Day be filled with many blessings, peace, health, love n light for you and your loved ones, big warm hugs Sue xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Here is a little History for you.

St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is one of Christianity's most widely known figures. But for all his celebrity, his life remains somewhat of a mystery.

Taken Prisoner By Irish Raiders. It is known that St. Patrick was born in Britain to wealthy parents near the end of the fourth century. He is believed to have died on March 17, around 460 A.D.  At the age of sixteen, Patrick was taken prisoner by a group of Irish raiders who were attacking his family's estate. They transported him to Ireland where he spent six years in captivity. During this time, he worked as a shepherd, outdoors and away from people. Lonely and afraid, he turned to his religion for solace, becoming a devout Christian. (It is also believed that Patrick first began to dream of converting the Irish people to Christianity during his captivity.) After more than six years as a prisoner, Patrick escaped. According to his writing, God's-spoke to him in a dream, telling him it was time to leave Ireland.

To do so, Patrick walked nearly 200 miles from County Mayo, where it is believed he was held, to the Irish coast. After escaping to Britain, Patrick reported that he experienced a second revelation-an angel in a dream tells him to return to Ireland as a missionary. Soon after, Patrick began religious training, a course of study that lasted more than fifteen years. After his ordination as a priest, he was sent to Ireland with a dual mission-to minister to Christians already living in Ireland and to begin to convert the Irish. Familiar with the Irish language and culture, Patrick like many before him including Christ, chose to incorporate traditional ritual into his lessons of Christianity. Rather than of attempting to eradicate native Irish beliefs he would give them new meaning. For instance, he used bonfires to celebrate Easter since the Irish were used to honoring their gods with fire. He also superimposed a sun, a powerful Irish symbol, onto the Christian cross to create what is now called a Celtic cross, so that veneration of the symbol would seem more natural to the Irish. Although there were a small number of Christians on the island when Patrick arrived, most Irish practiced a nature-based pagan religion. So for the most part St. Patrick did indeed Christianize Ireland.

Did St. Patrick remove the snakes from Ireland. Well some contend there were never were any physical snakes there to begin with. But in a symbolic way he did indeed remove the snakes from Ireland in the hearts of the Irish people. The "banishing of the snakes" was really a metaphor for the eradication of pagan ideology from Ireland and the triumph of Christianity. Within 200 years of Patrick's arrival, Ireland was completely Christianized.

The first St. Patrick's Day parades were in not in Ireland but in NYC staring March 17, 1762.

For symbols and recipes and more fun facts click the link below from the History Channel.

http://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day-symbols-and-traditions