The St. Patrick's Day Shamrock is made with 14K gold filled wire
and brass wire. The central manmade 8mm emerald is mounted in a gold filled snapset. The 4
green maple leaves with 41 sliver lined seed beads are mounted on 14K gold filled wire.
The finished pendant is about 2 1/2" high by 2 1/8" wide.

Much Irish folklore surrounds St. Patrick's Day. Not much of it is actually substantiated.
Some of this lore includes the belief that Patrick raised people from the dead. He also is
said to have given a sermon from a hilltop that drove all the snakes from Ireland. Of course,
no snakes were ever native to Ireland, and some people think this is a metaphor for the
conversion of the pagans. Though originally a Catholic holy day, St. Patrick's Day has evolved
into more of a secular holiday. The St. Patrick's Day custom came to America in 1737. That
was the first year St. Patrick's Day was publicly celebrated in this country, in Boston.
Today, people celebrate the day with parades, wearing of the green, and drinking beer. One
reason St. Patrick's Day might have become so popular is that it takes place just a few days
before the first day of spring. One might say it has become the first green of spring.

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