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Comments on: A century of St. Pats
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St. Pat's at Missouri S&TTue, 19 Feb 2013 16:03:46 +0000
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By: SigEpBowep83
https://bestever.mst.edu/2008/01/16/a_century_of_st_pats/#comment-7
Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:06:48 +0000https://besteverwp.mst.edu/2008/01/16/a_century_of_st_pats/#comment-7Er, the story I heard from back before I was even a ‘lower than one cubic centimeter of white whale droppings’ Baby Rep was that St. Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland, converting people from a religion that somehow had something to do with snakes, thus he ‘drove the snakes’ out of Ireland.
And of course, for those stuck at a technical (spell that mostly male) school in the middle of then nowhere looking for any reason to have a party – went to figuring that anyone smart enough to figure out how to drive the snakes out of Ireland just had to be an engineer!
Thus, the reason (at least the one I was told) as to how St. Pat became the patron saint of engineers.
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