St. Patty Day's--the REAL meaning!

I finally got motivated enough to look up (at the library-in a book) St. Patrick and his story.

This is what I found..

Patrick was kidnapped at the age of about 16 from his home town in England. They took him to Ireland and made him a slave.

While in Ireland he had a dream about a boat that would take him back home to England. He awoke and ranaway from his slave life and found the very boat that had been in his dream.

He returned home and said he would never to go Ireland again. BUT....a few years later he had another dream. He felt God was telling him to return to Ireland and teach the people about God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost. So he went back to Ireland.

In order to help people understand the nature of the Godhead one day--he bent down and picked up a shamrock. The three leafs each represent a member of the Godhead. Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost.

(this part I made up)--and the reason a four-leaf clover is lucky is because it represents someone who has "found" or come unto Christ. Therefore placing yourself as a friend to the Godhead. AND mostly the shamrock leaves are in a heart like shape to help show the love all three members of the Godhead have for us!

And that is the rest of the story!