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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday March 17 2018, @02:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the celebrate-with-sangria-not-beer dept.

Irish culture will soon be celebrated across the globe with parades, pub crawls and seas of green. But newly uncovered documents prove unlike previous belief, St. Patrick's Day celebrations did not start in Boston, rather at least 100 years earlier in St. Augustine, Florida.

The curious discovery comes from a rather unlikely source: gunpowder expenditures lists from St. Augustine for the years 1600-1601.While cannons and other artillery were often fired to help guide ships safely across St. Augustine's protective sandbar, they were also shot off during times of public celebrations and religious festivities.

A single entry from March 1600 states St. Augustine's residents gathered together and processed through the streets in honor of the feast day of San Patricio, or St. Patrick. As they made their way through the town, cannons fired from the wooden fort in celebration of the Irish saint.

"It was certainly a surprise," said historian J. Michael Francis, PhD, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg, who uncovered the document. "It did not register the first time I saw the name "San Patricio," the Spanish name for St. Patrick. After a few seconds it actually hit me that there was a St. Patrick's Day parade/procession in St. Augustine in 1601. Even more surprising was that the document identified St. Patrick as the patron saint of the city's maize fields."

https://phys.org/news/2018-03-truth-st-patrick-day-celebrations.html

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  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Saturday March 17 2018, @04:21PM (2 children)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Saturday March 17 2018, @04:21PM (#654115)

    Sure you did...

    And I boned a St Pauli girl [calmontbeverage.com] for years...

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Whoever on Saturday March 17 2018, @04:32PM (1 child)

    by Whoever (4524) on Saturday March 17 2018, @04:32PM (#654121) Journal

    And I boned a St Pauli girl [calmontbeverage.com] for years...

    That I can believe. Although it would be very expensive.

    For those who don't understand, St Pauli is the red light district of Hamburg, which would make a St. Pauli girl a ....

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @10:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @10:07PM (#654234)

      an alcohol free beer?