St. Patrick

In New Orleans, Saint Patrick’s Day is a big event. The most exciting event is the parades. These parades throw not only beads and stuff animals but also food. These foods consist of cabbage, carrots, potatoes, and onions. But why? It is not because catching random food is really fun. It is because these are the ingredients to make Irish stew. St. Patrick was captured and brought to Ireland when he was a young man, and this represents it. The question that is really bothering me is who was Saint Patrick and what did he do to achieve his title? After escaping captivity, Patrick went home. He later heard a voice that told him to go back to Ireland. When he returned, he banished all of the snakes out of Ireland, but they did not really have snakes in that area. In the Christian religion, the snakes represents evil, so instead of banishing real snakes from Ireland, he really just expelled evil from the land.