However, the presence of a vigorous population of Celtic lineage, principally of Irish origin, has supported the creation of other celebrations of beer, often for marketing purposes, such as Saint Patrick's Day ( Día de San Patricio ), patron of Ireland, which is celebrated with abundant libations.

Other popular landmarks and monuments include the Mansion House, the Anna Livia monument, the Molly Malone statue, Christ Church Cathedral, St Patrick's Cathedral, Saint Francis Xavier Church on Upper Gardiner Street near Mountjoy Square, The Custom House, and Áras an Uachtaráin.

A sculpture of John Chrysostom in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York | Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York City

* Saint Patrick's Day, March 17

* Saint Patrick's Day, a public holiday in Ireland, Montserrat and the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, widely celebrated elsewhere in North America and worldwide.

In 1956 he left Turkey and returned to Pakistan in 1957 where he attended Saint Patrick's School in Karachi and Forman Christian College in Lahore.

Yonkers High School students get ready for the Yonkers Saint Patrick's Day Parade

* Saint Patrick's Day Parade Dublin, Munich, New York, Boston, and San Diego

* Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick's Battalion.

They began a second U. S. tour in March 2007, once again to coincide ( and conclude ) with a Roseland Ballroom New York City show on Saint Patrick's Day.

* The army of king Ceretic of Strathclyde raids the Irish coast and carries off some of Saint Patrick's followers and sells them into slavery ( approximate date ).

* March 17 – first official Saint Patrick's Day

Though 97 % of Argentina's population self-identify as of European descent to this day a high level of multiculturalism remains a feature of Argentina's culture, allowing foreign festivals and holidays ( e. g. Saint Patrick's Day ), supporting all kinds of art or cultural expression from ethnic groups, as well as their diffusion through an important multicultural presence in the media ; for instance it is not uncommon to find newspapers or radio programs in English, German, Italian or French in Argentina.

Many of its feasts ( e. g., Christmas, Mardi Gras, Saint Patrick's Day ) remain holidays, and are now celebrated by people of all faiths and none — in some cases worldwide.

Large licensed public fireworks displays are commonplace around Saint Patrick's Day ( Skyfest ), Midsummer, Halloween and New Year's Eve.

The Saint Patrick's Battalion (), formed and led by Jon Riley, was a unit of 175 to several hundred immigrants ( accounts vary ) and expatriates of European descent who fought as part of the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848.

Only a few members of the Saint Patrick's Battalion were actual U. S. citizens.

Another hypothesis is that the members of the Saint Patrick's Battalion had been unhappy with their treatment in the U. S. Army.

There are conflicting accounts of the design of the flag of the Saint Patrick's Battalion.

The building was packed with people celebrating Saint Patrick's Day when two men threw a bomb through the door.

She is buried at Saint Patrick's Cemetery, Maysville.

* Saint Patrick's Purgatory ( 1798 )

In the U. S. and Canada, consumption of corned beef is often associated with Saint Patrick's Day.

Corned beef is not considered an Irish national dish, and the connection with Saint Patrick's Day specifically originates as part of Irish-American culture, and is often part of their celebrations in North America.

Saint Alcuin ( Alcuin of York ) is considered as a saint by all the main branches of Christianity: Roman Catholic, Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Saint Adalbert, Czech: ;, ( c. 956 – April 23, 997 ), Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians.

In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

As well as the Roman Martyrology, the Roman Missal identified the Saint Felix of 29 July with the antipope.

Arnulf then proceeded to the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, where he received the homage of the Roman people, who swore “ never to hand over the city to Lambert or his mother Ageltrude ”.

Saint Adelaide of Italy ( 931 / 932 – 16 December 999 ), also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was the second wife of Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor.

The Order of Saint Benedict ( Latin name: Ordo Sancti Benedicti ) is a Roman Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of Saint Benedict.

It may come from a custom in the late Roman / early Christian era, wherein metal boxes placed outside churches were used to collect special offerings tied to the Feast of Saint Stephen, which in the Western Church falls on the same day as Boxing Day.

St. Columba is the Patron Saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, OH.

The Roman Catholic Church did not commemorate Saint Cyril in the Tridentine Calendar: it added his feast only in 1882, assigning to it the date of 9 February.

In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, it was decided to leave the celebration of the feast of St Peter of Verona to local calendars, because he was not as well known worldwide, and Saint Catherine's feast was restored to its traditional date of April 29.

When the church was founded by Saint Mark during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, a great multitude of native Egyptians ( as opposed to Greeks or Jews ) embraced the Christian faith.

To the east of the Chapel of Saint Helena, the excavators discovered a void containing a 2nd century drawing of a Roman ship, two low walls which supported the platform of Hadrian's 2nd century temple, and a higher 4th century wall built to support Constantine's basilica.

* Chapel of the Invention of the Holy Cross-another set of 22 stairs from the Chapel of Saint Helena leads down to the Roman Catholic Chapel of the Invention of the Holy Cross believed to be the place where the True Cross was found.

The Order of Preachers (), after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III ( 1216 – 27 ) on 22 December 1216 in France.

In 1219 Pope Honorius III invited Saint Dominic and his companions to taken up residence at the ancient Roman basilica of Santa Sabina, which they did by early 1220.

** Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter ( Roman Catholic Church )

The existence of a church in the forum courtyard of Lincoln and the martyrium of Saint Alban on the outskirts of Roman Verulamium are exceptional.

Saint Isidore recognized that the spiritual and material welfare of the people of his See depended on assimilation of remnant Roman and ruling barbarian cultures ; he consequently attempted to weld the peoples and subcultures of the Visigothic kingdom into a united nation.

* 1412 – Joan of Arc, French military figure and Roman Catholic Saint ( legendary date ) ( d. 1431 )

Saint Jerome ( c. 347 – 30 September 420 ; ( also Hierom or Jerom ) (; ) was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church.

She is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Hedwig, where she is the patron saint of queens.

The feast day of Saint John in the Roman Catholic Church, which calls him " Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist ", and in the Anglican Communion, which calls him " John, Apostle and Evangelist ", is on 27 December.