honors St. Patrick, the Christian missionary who supposedly rid Ireland of snakes during the fifth century A.D. According to legend, the patron saint of Ireland chased the slithering reptiles into ...

On St. Patrick's Day, most revelers don't remember the patron saint of Ireland for his role as a snake killer. But legend holds that the Christian missionary rid the slithering reptiles from ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Legend has it that, back in the fifth century, St. Patrick ...

St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland ... for example, and even banished all of Ireland’s snakes into the sea following a 40-day fast. Unfortunately, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the science doesn’t ...

One of the most-well-known legends about St Patrick is that he drove the snakes out of Ireland, like some kind of reptilian Pied Piper. But that's not true because there were no snakes in pre ...

Popular legend has it that St. Patrick stood on a hilltop, Croagh Patrick (now an important site of pilgrimage in Ireland), ...

St. Patrick, the primary patron saint of Ireland ... While there is no historical evidence that he drove snakes out Ireland or ever referenced shamrocks, according to St. Patick's autobiography ...

Everyone knows about St Patrick – the man who drove the snakes out of Ireland, defeated fierce druids in contests of magic ...

We should recall that in St. Patrick’s own time, it was his saintly witness that legendarily was responsible for driving the snakes permanently out of Ireland. And it’s the saints of the ...

St. Patrick. Patrick, born Roman, raised Welsh, and famously credited with banishing snakes from Ireland (a reptilian issue geology had resolved millennia before) dominates the global imagination.

or is it?! Legend tells it that in addition to introducing Christianity to Ireland, St. Patrick banished all the snakes from the Emerald Isle, chasing them into the sea from atop a cliff where he ...