Paddy's Day is a Green Day

For a number of centuries now, the Irish people still celebrates the St. Patrick's Day. This celebration was chiefly a religious observation but has been slowly observed as a secular holiday in the long run. The name of the holiday was derived from Ireland's patron St. Patrick and often known also as St. Paddy's Day, Patrick's Day, or Paddy's Day. Today, this observance is known and practiced all over the world by people of Irish decent. Other countries declare this a holiday in respect to all Irish people and for their fight for liberty.

On March 17, 2009 and almost every preceding and succeeding years, the Chicago River turns green. In many parts of the country, avid followers dye streets and hue bodies of waters even those that were artificially made. Last year, the fountain fronting the White House flowed green liquid. History recorded that a bunch of Irish solders wore green workwear uniforms in order to show their protest and advance their political statement to authorities. Today, news outlets reported that thousands have been preparing for the great green event. Later, many cities from around the country will be hosting their own long parade.

So why is green a part of the celebration? In the early practices of the holiday, St. Patrick and the celebration is attributed with the color blue. However, in the 1700's green has been widely used and the tradition of using the color remained until now. This color might be used because of the shamrock that was used by the saint to demonstrate ad explain the Holy Trinity to early Christians. Thus the color of the leaf has become the main color of this renowned event.

Many sports events also attribute St. Patrick to them. Baseball teams in the US jumpstart each season on this day. The Cincinnati Reds were the first to wear green hats in honor of the celebration. They work athletic uniforms, jackets, jerseys, and other sports and team wear uniforms that are colored green in order to denote observance to the event. Basketball teams of the NBA also observe similar practice. Sometime between March 15 to 17, teams use specially tailored jerseys for their games. The notable team that does this is the Boston Celtics, whose official color is green, which uses even elaborate green and gold jerseys. The teams NY Knicks, Chicago Bulls, Toronto Raptors, and Dallas Mavericks also use the same colored jerseys in lieu with St. Patrick's Day.

For workers, this holiday is their day of putting off their workwear uniforms and flaunts their best green dress and proceeds to their own parties. Traditionally, St. Patrick's Day is a family affair wherein relatives visit each other and put up grills at their home yards and from their cook and celebrate.

Wearing of green apparel is often the distinct and direct way of celebrating this holiday for centuries. In fact, persons seen not wearing green are often pinched warmly by those who are in green clothes. So, the next year, you might also have to think about saving that green for paddy's day.