Lucky Saint Patrick Icon Charm Bracelet ~ Vintage

Description

This vintage bracelet is covered with Saint Patrick icons and four leaf clovers. The clover’s association with Saint Patrick, a 5th century religious leader isn’t clear. It’s been said he used three-leaf clovers to teach the Irish about the Trinity in Christian faith. But that tale is highly unlikely. Theres no mention of clover (or shamrocks) in Saint Patrick’s writings. The idea about the “lesson” did not show up until 1726. When an Irish minister and amateur botanist wrote about the custom of wearing shamrocks on St. Patrick’s Day. By then the tradition would have passed on for centuries. But it probably wasn’t an actual event in Saint Patrick’s life.

Alleged to offer magical protection, and ward off bad luck. In 1869 it was written that four-leaf clovers were “gathered at night-time during the full moon by sorceresses, who mixed it with vervain and other ingredients, while young girls in search of a token of perfect happiness made quest of the plant by day”. They have been a symbol of luck for centuries and were mentioned in a book from the 1600s, Carried as a soldier’s good-luck charm in World War I, and mentioned in a scholarly journal about the beliefs of college students in the 1920s. Even today people search diligently to find one

Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the “Apostle of Ireland”, he is the primary patron saint of Ireland. Never formally canonized by the Catholic Church, having lived before the current laws were established. Venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, Lutheran Church, Church of Ireland, and in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Saint Patrick’s Day is considered his feast day and is observed on March 17th, the supposed date of his death.

Vintage 90’s Bracelet