St. Patrick’s day in Moscow

Photo of people celebrating St. Patrick’s day in Moscow, Russia

Moscow cancels St. Patrick’s day
Traditionally, Roman Catholics, the Anglican Communion, and Lutherans celebrate The Feast of St. Patrick on March 17. Also, other countries, for example, Russia celebrate it. In particular, by ‘‘the wearing of the green,’’ with many people of Irish and other extractions wearing some item of green clothing. Parties featuring corned beef and cabbage, and even the drinking of beer dyed green with food coloring are also part of this celebration of Irish heritage.
Unfortunately, Moscow cancels the Parade this year, due to traffic concerns.
Meanwhile, since 1999, Russia hosts the annual International Festival “St. Patrick’s Day”, which opens at the Moscow International House of Music and continues with numerous parades in various cities. In particular, in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Dubna, Kirov and other cities. So let’s see how it was a year ago.

The event which annually takes place in the capital of Russia – St. Patrick’s day in Moscow

The patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick, was born about 390 in Roman Britain—scholars disagree as to exactly where and died around 461. His grandfather was a Christian priest, and his father a deacon and an official of the Roman Empire in Britain. He is said to have been kidnapped at the age of 16 by Irish raiders and sold into slavery in Ireland; he escaped after six years, and received his religious training in continental monasteries. After being consecrated a bishop, he returned to Ireland about 432 as a missionary. The association of St. Patrick with the shamrock stems from his supposed use of its three-part leaf to explain the concept of the Holy Trinity to his largely uneducated listeners (see Trinity Sunday).

Moscow cancels St. Patrick’s day

Parade during St. Patrick's celebration in Moscow, Russia

Dances during the event

St. Patrick’s Purgatory has become a famed site of pilgrimage since the early 13th century. It is on Station Island in Lough Derg in County Donegal where St. Patrick had a vision promising that all who came to the sanctuary in penitence and faith would receive an indulgence for their sins. Additionally, if their faith remained strong, they would be allowed a glimpse of the tortures of the damned and the joys of the redeemed.