Easter Day and all about it by Amrinder Kang

Many Easter day customs come from the old world. the name Easter come from Eostre an ancient Anglo Saxon goddess originally of the dawn. In pagan times an annual spring festival was held in her honor. Some Easter customs have come from this and other pre-Christian spring festivals. Others come from the Passover feast of the Jews, observed in memory of their deliverance from Egypt. but now Easter is all about egg hunts bunny rabbit ts chocolate playing with Friends.A month corresponding to April had been named "Eostremonat," or Eostre's month, leading to "Easter" becoming applied to the Christian holiday that usually took place within it. Prior to that, the holiday had been called Pasch Passover, which remains its name in most non-English languages.

Did you know that 9o million chocolate Easter bunny for Easter. each day 5 million marshmallows are produced in preparation for Easter and 16 billion jelly beans are made for Easter that’s enough to completely fill an 89 feet high and 60 feet wide plastic Easter egg about the height of a nine story office building

St. Patrick's Day made by Heidy Isidro

St.Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century.The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years.
St.Patrick's Day is celebrated by the Irish and Irish at Heart in big cities and small towns alike with parade "wearing of the green", music and songs, Irish food and drinks, and activities for kids such as Craft,coloring and games.
In 1848 several New York Irish Aid societies decided to unite their parades to form
New York City St. Patrick's Day parade. Today, that parades is the world's oldest civilian parades and the largest in the United States with over 150,000 participants
Each year, nearly three million people line the 1.5-mile parade route to watch the procession, which takes more than five hours.Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City on March 17 1762.Along with their music, the parade helped the soldiers reconnect with their Irish roots, as well as fellow Irishmen serving in the English army.
Chicago is famous for a somewhat peculiar annual event. Today in order to minimize environment damage only 40 pounds of dye are used, making the river green for only several hours.

Saint Patrick's Day by Gabriela Villanueva

Saint Patrick's day is celebrated on March 17. The Irish have observed this religious holiday for over a thousand years.On Saint Patrick's day,which falls during lent season, Irish families would traditionally go to church in the morning and celebrate in the evening.Boston,Chicago,Philadelphia and Savannah they also celebrate the day with parades involving between 10,000 and 20,000 participants.He is believed to have died an March 17,around 460 a.d.

Many of the stories traditionally associated with St. Patrick, including the famous account of his banishing all the snakes from Ireland, are FALSE,the products of hundreds of year of exaggerated storytelling.It know that St.Patrick was born in Britain wealthy parents near the end of the Fourth century.although his father was a Christian deacon, it has been suggested that he probably took on the role because of tax incentives and there is no evidence that Patrick came from a particularly religious family.At the age of sixteen,Patrick was taken from a group of Irish raiders who were attacking his family' estate.

They transported him to Ireland where he spent six years in captivity. After more than six years as a prisoner, Patrick escaped.Then Patrick walked nearly 200 Miles from county Mayo, were it is believed he was help, to the Irish coast.After he escaping to the Britain,Patrick reported that he experienced a second revelation an angel in a dream tell hen to return to Ireland as a missionary.

St. Patrick's day by Hoang Pham

History of Saint Patrick's day

St Patrick is known as the patron saint of Ireland. True, he was not a born Irish. But he has become an integral part of the Irish heritage, mostly through his service across Ireland of the 5th century. His real name was probably Maewyn Succat. Though Patricius was his Romanicized name, he was later came to be familiar as Patrick.

Saint Patrick die on March 17, AD 461. That day has been commemorated as St. Patrick's Day ever since. The day's spirit is to celebrate the universal baptization of Ireland. With the origin being Ireland it is obvious that the Day is also holiday there, as it is here in the US

Celebreation of St. Patrick

Many people, regardless of ethnic background, wear green-coloured clothing and items. Traditionally, those who are caught not wearing green are pinched, usually affectionately. Seattle and other cities paint the traffic stripe of their parade routes green and have some state that they dyed river to green.

St. Patrick's Day by Le Chi Pham

St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast—on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage

Although it's not a national holiday in the United States, many communities across the country celebrate St. Patrick's Day with parades, festivals, and "wearing of the green." In fact, St. Patrick's Day parades are an American invention. The first parade honoring the day occurred in Boston in 1762.

St. Patrick used the shamrock leaf to symbolize the Trinity, and today many people wear a shamrock to commemorate Saint Patrick's Day. The luck of the Irish 1. Find a four-leaf clover. 2. Wear green (so you don't get pinched). 3. Kiss the blarney stone. 4. Catch a Leprechaun if you can.