March 17 every yearSt. Patrick's Day (stpatrick's day）, which is Ireland's national holiday. Although it is still cold in Ireland in March, it does not affect the joy and enthusiasm of people to celebrate the holidays.
People wear traditional green, yellow costumes and their faces are painted with green oil paint to depict the national flowerCloverSinging and dancing during the day and fireworks at night to celebrate the festival.
In the United States, where there are many descendants of Irish immigrants, the holiday has also been celebrated since 1737, with a grand parade on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
This festival originated in Ireland at the end of the 5th century in honor of the patron saint of IrelandSt. Patrick's (Stpatrick ）He died on March 17, 461 A.D.
Europe under St. Patrick was shattered by barbarian invasions, and 16 years after his death, the Western Roman Empire collapsed.
In the years that followed, Central and Western Europe was the edge of the world's civilization, and the island of Ireland, which hangs in the western part of the sea, was the edge of Europe and the end of the world.
On such a small island at the end of civilization, the classical culture and the ** Christian culture brought by St. Patrick were preserved, and the unique and highly creative ** Irish ** culture was later developed, which was later fed back to the European continent.
There are various legends about St. Patrick's landing in Ireland.
Some say that he was enslaved by Irish robbers as a child, and that he had the vision to return to Ireland to preach to the robbers.
It is also said that he was appointed by the Pope to land in Ireland in the 5th century A.D. to preach to the local people, who did not believe and wanted to stone him to deathClover, explaining to the public the doctrine of the Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Patrick's speech deeply touched the local population of Ireland, and as more and more people were baptized, Patrick established a monastery in Ireland, and later dozens of monasteries were established in Ireland, and at the end of Europe, began to play a unique role in the preservation and development of knowledge and culture.
A few decades later, the barbarian invasion frenzy that roared across Europe passed by Ireland.
Xi ancient knowledge is one of the main concerns of the monastery, the Irish monastery became the forefront of European classical culture in the mid-6th century. It became a major factor in the recapture of many of the destroyed ancient intellectual cultures of the European continent from the devastation of barbarian invasions
The Irish clergy developed a unique aesthetic pursuit, which is reflected in the characters, drawings, and letters of the parchment manuscript.
When they copied documents by hand, they invented two types of calligraphy: a rounded script called "capital" or semi-uncial, and a lowercase script that facilitated writing.
Their parchment, vellum manuscripts are exquisitely varied and are treasures of European literature, the most famous being the Kellan Scroll, also known as the Biography of St. Colomba the Missionary.
Irish monasteries, in the years that followed, developed special penances, monasteries, and monastic administrations, and even many religious festivals differed from the Orthodox denominations of continental Europe.
Their monasteries are more like monks in the desert of early Egypt than the monasteries of St. Benedict on the Continent.
One in the desert of Egypt, the other on the cliffs of Ireland, both go to the extreme edge of the world, the most distant and cold place from the world, to meditate and pray.
But Irish monasteries also have a missionary pilgrimage, requiring pilgrims not only to leave their homes, but also to take on the task of proselytizing and forming new monastic communities.
Thus, later St. Columba and his companions came to Scotland as a missionary, and St. Gaulongbon came to Gaul in Europe and Italy to establish Irish-style monasteries.
But no one went as far as St. BrendinLegend has it that he was probably the first European to reach the American continent(due to the yaw of his ship), many centuries later in the ".The Voyages of St. Brendamtells the story of his 570 years of sojourn in Greenland, Iceland.
The Church of Ireland, alone in Ireland, a Scotland missionary for more than 100 years, met in the British Isle at the beginning of the 7th century with a new ** mission from the European continent.
At this time, many ritual festivals on both sides are different, such as the date of Easter, where one faction is fasting and the other is celebrating.
To solve this dilemma, in 663 AD, the king of Northumbria convened with both sidesWhitby Synod, which eventually decided to support the **religious tradition of continental Europe and oppose the **religious tradition of Ireland-Scotland), and similar resolutions were subsequently made throughout the British Isles.
In the future, the saints of the British Isles, who have been nourished by the ideology and culture of the Irish monasteries, will use their unique talents in Europe to promote the leadership of Charlemagne in Europe in later generationsCarolingian Renaissance