ANSWER: Using
a shamrock, St. Patrick demonstrated the concept
of the TRINITY (three persons in one God).
“St. Patrick is said to have plucked a shamrock from the sward, to explain by its triple leaf and single stem, in some rough way, to the assembled chieftains, the great doctrine of the Blessed Trinity,” according to the 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia |
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