CHARLOTTE — St. Patrick Cathedral and School celebrated their patronal feast day in a big way March 17.
Celebrations began with a Mass for students, followed by a performance by bagpiper Mark Adamson through the halls and classrooms of the school.
The kids then enjoyed Irish dancing, “leprechaun games,” and a St. Patrick’s Day parade in the parking lot. Later that day, the cathedral’s rector and pastor
Father Christopher Roux offered a livestreamed Mass at Old St. Joseph Church in Mount Holly and blessed the grave of Father T.J. Cronin, the first pastor for the Irish immigrants who settled in western North Carolina in the early 1800s and built the historic church in 1843.
— Photos provided by James Sarkis
