St. Patrick
Catholic Saints
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The Shamrock and St. Patrick
The story about Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland is until like the 8th century. With the shamrock and apparently the shamrock didn't have any particular special significance at Ireland before that. I mean, Patrick clearly has a very strong Trinitarian confession at the beginning of the confession. The idea of trifold or triplicity was a really resonant image for sort of Irish native religion, pagan religion.
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