Every year on March 17, people around the world celebrate Irish heritage on St. Patrick's Day—named for the patron saint of Ireland, pictured here on a stained glass window in Clogheen.

Dubai, Singapore, Australia, the U.S. and more all celebrate the saint. "Irish people made a point of welcoming non-Irish people to St. Patrick's Day," McMahon explained. Even George Washington ...

In the 1990s the St. Joseph’s Day Association saw revelers don formal ... who raised their glasses to honor the patron saint of families. From the left, Brian Minardo, Joseph Romagnolo III ...

Pope Francis, baptized as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, celebrated his patron saint’s feast day every April 23. The patron saint’s day of the pope is a holiday at the Vatican and Pope Francis usually ...

NEW YORK -- If it's March, and it's green, it must be St. Patrick's Day. The day honoring the patron saint of Ireland is a global celebration of Irish heritage. And nowhere is that more so than in ...

Saint Patrick died on March 17, 461, which later became the day we celebrate him and the Irish. America’s first St. Patrick’s Day celebration was in 1600 in the Spanish colony of present ...

Before his death, Pope Francis approved the canonization of Carlo Acutis, who will be the first millennial Catholic saint. This weekend ... arrives for a two-day stay at St. Catherine of Siena ...