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Google’s St. Patrick logo

A very cool Celtic Google Logo for St. Patrick’s Day. Also, check out the Top 3 St. Patrick Myths

Google is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day today with a homepage doodle that was inspired by the Book of Kells, a 9th-century gospel manuscript.

“Try knot to miss our Book-of-Kells-inspired doodle for St. Patrick’s Day,” Google tweeted today.

The colorful doodle focused on the “Celtic knots and the Chi Rho [monogram] from the Book of Kells,” Google doodler Jennifer Hom told the Washington Post’s Comic Riffs.

The Book of Kells, currently housed in the Old Library at Dublin’s Trinity College, is “celebrated for its lavish decoration,” according to the college. “The manuscript contains the four Gospels in Latin based on a Vulgate text, written on vellum (prepared calfskin), in a bold and expert version of the script known as ‘insular majuscule.'” link

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The Top 3 Myths of Saint Patrick’s Day

On March 17th everyone is Irish! We wear green, drink green beer and shamrock shakes for Saint Patrick. Saint Patrick has become a beloved figure in the Western Hemisphere, but where did Saint Patrick come from?  What did he do to become so beloved?

Believe it or not, Saint Patrick is not a canonized saint by the Catholic Church. Patrick was deemed a “saint” before the official canonization process was formed.  Check out the list of officially canonized saints here.  Yes, Patrick was responsible for missionary journeys in Ireland, but there is also a lot of misinformation about Patrick:

MYTH #1 Saint Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland.

Snakes seem to embody everything evil.  We get a lot of distrust of snakes from the book of Genesis because Satan is represented as a serpent.  In addition, snakes are elusive, deadly, and just plain scary.

The Patrick snake myth is dispelled:

Ireland, after all, is surrounded by icy ocean waters—much too cold to allow snakes to migrate from Britain or anywhere else. But since snakes often represent evil in literature, “when Patrick drives the snakes out of Ireland, it is symbolically saying he drove the old, evil, pagan ways out of Ireland [and] brought in a new age…

Myth #2 Saint Patrick was Irish

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