| Wearing a gold or silver medal of your favorite | | | | brought to the country. Saint Patrick was not Irish |
| patron saint is a very accepted thing to do in today's | | | | born, he was from Britain, but he was kidnapped |
| world. You can either keep your medal in your wallet, | | | | early in his life and made into a slave in Ireland. His |
| on a bracelet, or around your neck on a chain. People | | | | masters were Druids who had no religion, just as |
| enjoy wearing patron saint medals because it makes | | | | most of Ireland was at the time. Saint Patrick found |
| them feel closer to that particular saint. Other | | | | solace in praying to God almost non-stop throughout |
| people's favorite patron saint is just the saint that | | | | his days working. Patrick developed a very close |
| their parents named them after at birth. Some patron | | | | relationship with God, and one night God told him |
| saints tend to be more beloved by the masses than | | | | through a dream that he must get to the coast of |
| others, and these patron saints tend to have more | | | | Ireland. When Patrick did so he found sailors there |
| people wearing their medals because of this. | | | | going to Britain who were more than happy to bring |
| 5.) Saint Patrick - Saint Patrick is one of the most | | | | Patrick back with them. Patrick knew God had meant |
| popular patron saint medals to wear mostly due to | | | | for that event to happen, and it inspired him to |
| St. Patrick's Day, which falls on March 17th every | | | | become a priest when he returned to Britain. Patrick |
| year. This holiday is his feast day, but it is much more | | | | made a great priest and was also ordained a bishop. |
| celebrated then most other saints' feast days are. His | | | | Patrick went back to Ireland and vowed to make |
| feast day has been turned into more of an Irish | | | | Christians of the pagans who had once enslaved him. |
| Holiday than a celebration of his feast. His feast day | | | | Patrick successfully converted thousands of Irish to |
| is basically just an Irish Holiday because he is the | | | | Christianity. |
| patron saint of Ireland due to all the great things he | | | | |