Saint Patrick's Day, colloquially St. Paddy's Day or simply Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.
The day is the national holiday of Ireland: it is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland. It is also a public holiday in Montserrat. In Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the United States, and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.

St. Patrick's Day
Leprechauns peeking around a willow tree,

Pussy willows waking longing to be free.

Colleens and shamrocks and castles old and gray,

Put them all together to make St. Patrick's Day.

Lent, in Christian tradition, is the period of the liturgical year leading up to Easter. Conventionally it is described as being forty days long, though different denominations calculate the forty days differently.

In many denominations it is observed as a period of fasting and prayer, and this practice was virtually universal in Christendom until the Protestant Reformation.

The forty days represent the time that, according to the Bible, Jesus spent in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, where he endured emptattion by Satan.

The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer — through prayer, penitenc almsgiving and self-denial — for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events linked to the Passion of Christ and culminates in Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Первые цветы - хрупкие и нежные, растущие из-под холодного, колкого снега... Не зима, не весна - начало марта.
Женщина - нежная и хрупкая, но такая же сильная, как цветок в своем стремлении к солнцу... Не зима, не весна - начало МИРА!
Поздравляю с праздником 8 Марта все женское население мира!!!
Дорогие женщины, не забывайте о том, что вы женщины!
Позволяйте себе хотя бы иногда быть слабыми!