New York City's St. Patrick’s Day Parade draws 2 million spectators annually. Check out highlights from 2025's festivities.

St. Patrick's Day always falls on March 17, which is the date the patron saint of Ireland is believed ... more than a decade before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and each year ...

Each year, St. Patrick’s Day celebrates the Patron Saint of Ireland — who experts say wasn’t even Irish. He was kidnapped as a teenager and taken to Ireland before escaping to other parts of Europe ...

Ireland is not the only country where St Patrick is a patron saint. In 1961, the same year Ireland opened an embassy in Lagos, Irish bishops named St Patrick the patron saint of Nigeria.