St. Patrick’s Day is a holiday full of laughing and pinching if you aren’t wearing green. What an odd tradition wouldn’t you say? Ever wonder why we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?
St. Patrick’s revelers thought wearing green made one invisible to leprechauns, fairy creatures who would pinch anyone they could see (anyone not wearing green). People began pinching those who didn’t wear green as a reminder that leprechauns would sneak up and pinch green-abstainers
Marianna says
Nice job Colleen! And I love the last fact. So little people know that St. Patrick was actually Italian. 🙂
Melissa says
Wow I learned a lot I didn’t know today!
Jen-Eighty MPH Mom says
Wow good job on the infographic…and I loved reading the facts!
Jenn @therebelchick says
This is awesome! And I had no idea that St patrick wasn’t Irish!
Joy Williams says
How interesting! i did not know these facts! Very cool!!
Rachel says
I learned somethings today.
Nice job on the infographic. I am impressed!
RJ says
Great job Colleen! I loved this. What did you use to create it?
Colleen says
I use Photo Elements or is it PhotoShop Elements LOL I use to just use PS CS2 until I moved to a Mac. Then for the drawings I used a paid stock image service.
If I had a million hours in a day I could create all my own art too but LOL that would take me weeks to make one!
Stephen N. says
I am Irish and didn’t know some of these facts! Thanks for the info!
Robin says
I loved your website!!! Thank you for all the fun facts! We’re going to use them tonite at our St. Paddy’s Day party!
Robin
Peter says
Nice graphic, Colleen…thanks for putting it together. Any problem if we were to repost on our band’s site as we get closer to the holiday?
BTW – sorry, Marianna, but he was not Italian. He was born into Roman Britain…more specifically in an area in modern Scotland called Kilpatrick. The fact that Britain was part of the Roman Empire at the time, however, doesn’t make him Italian.
http://www.history.com/topics/who-was-saint-patrick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick’s_Day
Lisa Ehrman says
Very interesting! I certainly never heard that fact about the first color being blue….wow!