Here on CathInfo I always turn the site green on St. Patrick's Day, and usually keep it that way for the rest of March (sometimes partway into April! hahaha)
The Web site for the local independent Catholic church shows its
Lenten purple (d.b.a. "
violet") theme on the date of the saint's feast, because Ash Wednesday always falls between February 4 and March 10 (inclusive), and Lent never ends earlier than March 22. Sigh.
[...] on my father's side, we came from Ireland. My father's ancestors lived in Wisconsin for a few generations after immigrating from Ireland.
Attracted by seeing a map locating a place named "
Green Bay"?
'Twas many decades before science would show that the modern population of Ireland has the world's highest percentage of genetic tolerance for
dairy products (or to take the rare opportunity to flaunt the Latinate--thus overtly more Catholic--word newly learned this year from Canon Law:
lacticinia), notably including
cheese.
I can claim no better than
1/8 Irish blood, calculated unscientifically as having 1
pureblood-Irish great-grandmother, who, altho' born in a Yankee state during the War Between the States, was the
very devoutly Catholic daughter of
native Irish, and was married post"Reconstruction" in a neutralized border state (i.e.: one south of the Mason-Dixon Line, but north of the Deep South).