St. Patrick
Saint Patrick is the patron saint of this country.
What is Ireland?
St. Patrick used the three leaves of a shamrock to symbolize this.
What is the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost)?
This is the name of the only female patron saint of Ireland, the patron saint of Irish nuns, newborns, midwives, dairy maids and cattle.
Who is Saint Brigid?
Irish Catholic immigrants played a vital role in building Catholic churches and schools in America, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral in this famous east coach immigrant city.
What is New York City?
This Nevada County city is home to a parish built in the 1850s by Irish miners, whose patron is St. Patrick.
What is Grass Valley?
This country is where Saint Patrick was born.
What is Britain?
This is what the circle at the very center of a Celtic cross represents.
What is the sun?
This Irish saint was a 7th century bishop and martyr who evangelized the German-speaking region of Bavaria, of which is he an official patron saint.
Who is St. Kilian?
The ancestors of this Catholic president, the 35th in the country’s history, immigrated to America from County Wexford (Ireland) in the mid 1800s.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This Northern California diocese was historically dependent on the importation of Irish priests – in 1972, 75% of priests in this diocese were from Ireland.
What is the Diocese of Sacramento?
This is why St Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17.
What is the day of Saint Patrick’s death (in 461 CE)?
According to Irish lore, this is the animal that St. Patrick drove out of Ireland.
What are snakes?
This 6th century Irish monastic is one of the three patron saints of Ireland. He was born in Donegal in 521 of parents who were of royal descent. He founded numerous monasteries, including the one at Kells, famous for its illuminated manuscripts. He travelled to Iona, off the coast of Scotland and founded a monastery which would become one of the greatest in Christendom.
Who is St. Columba ( or Colmcille)?
This Catholic fraternal organization, founded in 1882 by a “blessed” priest born to Irish Catholic immigrant parents in Waterbury, CT, now claims about 2 million members.
What are the Knights of Columbus?
In addition to the Diocese of Sacramento, St. Patrick is a patron saint of this other Catholic diocese in Northern California.
What is the Archdiocese of San Francisco?
At age 16, before becoming a priest, this happened to Saint Patrick.
What is he was abducted and brought to Northern Ireland?
In 1541, this English Tudor king beheaded Irish sovereignty and declared himself King of Ireland, which the Irish parliament acknowledged the following year with the passage of the Crown of Ireland Act.
Who is King Henry VIII?
Innumerable Irish Catholic males bear the name of this 7th century monk, also known as Coemgen, who was of royal descent and was said to have lived to the age of 120.
Who is St. Kevin?
This event in the 1840s led to a massive wave of Irish Catholic immigrants to America, with an estimated 1.5 million people leaving Ireland between 1845 and 1855.
What is the Great Famine?
This school and former orphanage, originally operated by the Sisters of Mercy from Ireland, is the oldest operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi River.
What is Mount Saint Mary’s Academy (Grass Valley)?
This was St. Patrick’s name when he was born.
What is Maewyn Succat?
Down Cathedral in Ireland is the widely accepted location of this.
Where is St. Patrick buried?
Saint Finbarr is usually cited as the founder of this Irish city that originally popped off as a monastic settlement in the 6th century.
Where is Cork?
St. Francis Xavier Church, the oldest continuously operating Catholic church with strong Irish Catholic roots in the United States, is located in this state.
What is Maryland?
This Catholic college, located in Moraga (East Bay), was established in 1863 and is the oldest Catholic college founded by Irish Catholics to serve the needs of the Irish Catholic population in the 19th century. It may currently be more well known for its men’s basketball program, which perennially competes for West Coast Conference titles.
What is Saint Mary’s College?