A bagpiper plays as he walks across the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, as part of the exchange's St. Patrick's Day observance.
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A bagpiper plays as he walks across the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, as part of the exchange's St. Patrick's Day observance.
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The man whom the holiday honors was born in Britain to Roman parents in the third century. As a teenager, he was kidnapped and spirited away to Ireland, where he was enslaved and forced to work as a shepherd for seven years.
The future patron saint of Ireland eventually escaped and returned Britain, but according to legend, a heavenly voice came to him in a dream and commanded him to return to Ireland to convert the country to Christianity.
