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Saint Patrick's Day
Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.
The day is the national holiday of Ireland. It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland and Montserrat. In Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the United States and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.[1]
It became a feast day in the Roman Catholic Church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding[2] in the early part of the 17th century, and is a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland. The feast day usually falls during Lent; if it falls on a Friday of Lent (unless it is Good Friday), the obligation to abstain from eating meat can be lifted by the local bishop. The date of the feast is occasionally, yet controversially, moved by church authorities when March 17 falls during Holy Week; this happened in 1940 when Saint Patrick's Day was observed on April 3 in order to avoid it coinciding with Palm Sunday, and happened again in 2008, having been observed on 15 March.[3][4]
圣帕特里克节（爱尔兰蓋爾語：Lá ’le Pádraig ），是纪念爱尔兰的守护神，圣博德主教（约385–461年）的节日，在每年3月17日举行。
这一天是爱尔兰人的国庆节，同时也是北爱尔兰的银行休假日与爱尔兰*、蒙特塞拉特和加拿大纽芬兰与拉布拉多省的法定节假日。在加拿大其他地区、英国、澳大利亚、美国和新西兰，圣帕特里克节虽然广为庆祝，但不是法定节假日。
圣帕特里克节之所以成为罗马天主教的宗教节日和爱尔兰天主教的瞻礼日，得益于沃特福德出生的方济各会修道士Luke Wadding[1]在17世纪前期的影响。