Dear Listers, I seem to recall that St. Pat was never cannonized. That would reduce his status a bit. Tom On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Joe <joe@gateshead8.free-online.co.uk> wrote: > Dear All, > > St Patrick's was all chaos here in the UK. As Easter falls early the > catholic > church does not allow it, because no saint outranks Jesus. > > No saint can be honoured on Holy Week in the run up to Easter so St > Paddy is oot! Seems it won't happen again until about A.D. 2080. > > There are many folk who ignore this anyway so it makes a mare's > nest of 'tradition' and holy writ. > > All sounds Irish to me, (#}:0)) > > Cheers, > > Joe. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARMSTRONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >