Now a worldwide celebration of Irish identity, Saint Patrick’s Day’s origins as a green holiday are rather murky. Saint Patrick was originally associated with the color blue, and the cross of ...

So my students are often surprised when I tell them that St. Patrick’s Day was once a solemn feast day when you’d be far more likely to see the color blue. In fact, there’s even a color ...

but St. Patrick wore blue. Early representations of St. Patrick show him wearing blue clothing, according to Smithsonian Magazine. If St. Patrick’s official color was blue, why is green the ...

Still, according to many sources, most depictions of Saint Patrick show him wearing blue. In fact, when Britain’s King George III created the Order of St. Patrick in the late 1700s, its official ...