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The real deal about St. Patrick's Day

Despite the popular myth, St. Patrick did not banish all the snakes from Ireland. In fact, being an island nation, there never were any snakes in Ireland at all.

But Patrick was significant in that he converted thousands of native Irish to Christianity.

He was born in 385 in Britain and was captured by the Irish when he was 16 and forced to work as a shepherd, where some say he had...

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