Everyone knows about St Patrick – the man who drove the snakes out of Ireland, defeated fierce druids in contests of magic ...

The Chicago River is dyed green each year for the St ... But since snakes often represent evil in literature, “when Patrick drives the snakes out of Ireland, it is symbolically saying he ...

I am known as Saint Patrick, the Patron Saint of Ireland ... Sometimes artists show me chasing snakes out of Ireland - that always makes me smile because there have never been any snakes in ...

Themes: celebrating St Patrick's Day ... Another story is that Patrick was responsible for driving all the snakes out of Ireland. But snakes were never there in the first place.

St. Patrick is credited with converting the Irish to Christianity and is famously associated with driving snakes out of Ireland, though this is believed to be symbolic. St. Patrick is said to have ...

Saint Patrick was a symbol of freedom of speech. Although there is no evidence beyond pious legend that he chased snakes out of Ireland (there likely never were snakes in Ireland), he did chase ...

Popular legend has it that St. Patrick stood on a hilltop, Croagh Patrick (now an important site of pilgrimage in Ireland), and banished all the snakes from Ireland using a wooden staff.