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Rotary Hosts Talk On St. Patrick’s Day Traditions
By LINDA HULL
Rotary Club of Los Alamos
“If I had a dollar for every time someone has told me they have always wanted to go to Ireland, I would be very wealthy by now,” mused Maire O’Neill, her Irish eyes smiling. A native of Dublin, O’Neill spoke March 9 to the members of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos, via Zoom, about traditions and celebrations of St. Patrick’s Day, March 17.
Maewyn Succat, the St. Patrick we know today, was born into nobility in the fifth century in the western part of present-day Britain, on the edge of the Roman Empire. He was only 16 when he was “taken into slavery and sold in Ireland” by Irish raiders. Six years later, after escaping and returning home, he had a vision instructing him to return to Ireland to spread Christianity. Upon becoming a priest, he returned to Ireland as a missionary. His image is depicted in the Book of Kells, circa 800 A.D., illuminated manuscripts of the fo