St. Patrick: Not Irish, Dueled With Druids, Refused to ‘Suck a Man’s Breast’ Lisa Bitel, The Conversation © Provided by The Daily Beast Photo by Time Life Pictures/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty
On March 17, people around the world will celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by parading in green hats, sporting images of shamrocks and leprechauns tiny, grinning, fairy men pinned to their lapels. Patrick’s picture will adorn greeting cards: an aged, bearded bishop in flowing robes, grasping a bishop’s staff and glaring at a coil of snakes.
The icon refers to one of Patrick’s legendary miracles in which he is said to have prayed to banish all snakes from Ireland. However, as a historian of medieval Ireland, I can assure you that the real St. Patrick, who lived and worked in the fifth century, never saw a snake or wore a shamrock.
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She Only Has One Good Lung. She Can’t Get the Vaccine. Olivia Messer
Like many Americans, Madonna Laws-Lowell has mixed feelings about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
Hope. Anger. Despair. Confusion.
The difference: Laws-Lowell, 53, has only one functioning lung and is still in the monitoring stage after she underwent surgery, and then chemotherapy, for colorectal cancer in 2019.
“My lungs could not withstand COVID,” she told The Daily Beast.
An orchid enthusiast based in St. Louis, Missouri, Laws-Lowell is finding the uncertainty surrounding when she might get vaccinated to be almost as unbearable as the pandemic itself.
And she finds the pandemic extremely unbearable.