{"id":49866,"date":"2015-03-17T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/so-who-the-heck-was-st-patrick-anyway.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T14:08:09","slug":"so-who-the-heck-was-st-patrick-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/so-who-the-heck-was-st-patrick-anyway.html","title":{"rendered":"So who the heck was St. Patrick, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now you&#39;ll know.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Today I Found Out<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23SaintPatrick\">#SaintPatrick<\/a> died on this day, 461. Here&#39;s the real story of the man behind the holiday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/this-day-in-history-march-17th-from-slave-to-saint-the-story-of-patrick\/\">http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/this-day-in-history-march-17th-from-slave-to-saint-the-story-of-patrick\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/this-day-in-history-march-17th-from-slave-to-saint-the-story-of-patrick\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Rn93mTaZ38IY_CYT4Zw4KMXy_BC6gIwJzZmQj4v6TA4RRBeVSbNIuvIxw-pyAl-ItvETOVam0PVAnFfpVT82thn5CDOi1nrhQq8Ra1r8XadBNmnu2zQrrDCG=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/this-day-in-history-march-17th-from-slave-to-saint-the-story-of-patrick\/'>This Day in History: March 17th- From Slave to Saint, The Story of Patrick<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThis Day In History: March 17, 461 After St. Patrick&rsquo;s death on March 17, 461, his story was largely forgotten. It took centuries for him to attain mythological status, and even at that, the St. Patrick that is revered today bears little resemblance to the man who actually existed. To begin with, St. Patrick wasn&rsquo;t [&#038;hellip\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/H2LKfzCNxai'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now you&#39;ll know. Originally shared by +Today I Found Out: #SaintPatrick died on this day, 461. Here&#39;s the real story of the man behind the holiday. http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/this-day-in-history-march-17th-from-slave-to-saint-the-story-of-patrick\/ This Day in History: March 17th- From Slave to Saint, The Story of Patrick This Day In History: March 17, 461 After St. Patrick&rsquo;s death on March &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/17\/so-who-the-heck-was-st-patrick-anyway.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So who the heck was St. Patrick, anyway?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,68,27],"tags":[836],"class_list":["post-49866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-holidays","category-religion","tag-saintpatrick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51617,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/rip-patrick-macnee.html","url_meta":{"origin":49866,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Patrick MacNee","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 25-Jun-15 5:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Your voice, your charm, and your wit entertained me for many hours over the years. 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