Uncategorized
Why We Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day {Written by Si}
Long before the warring Germanic tribes swooped down across the frozen Rhine, the Roman Empire was crumbling from within. It hardly defended itself against waves of brutal invasions. With the empire’s fall, the violent tribesmen carelessly destroyed many of the classical works of antiquity and learning from the Greco-Roman era. Thousands of miles north in Britain, a 16-year-old boy named Patrick was kidnapped in 389 A.D. by Irish raiders and sold as a slave in Ireland. For six years, he Continue Reading…
March 17, 2007