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Saint Patrick's Day Parade

This year's Scranton St. Patrick's Parade is on Saturday, March 14, 2009. It starts at 11:45 a.m. If you like to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, or simply like to celebrate, then why not do it early? Since 1962 the St. Patrick's Parade Association of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania conducts the nationally acclaimed parade - The weekend before the blessed feast day

Show off your musical group (bag pipes, highschool band or string band) and join with the other floats and marchers to show off your musical and artistic talent as one of the 10,000 (and growing) participants. Click on Entry Form to be part of the next strut.

We are the second largest parade in the country, as measured by participants per population of the city in which it's held*. Savannah, GA is first, New York City was third.

HISTORY:

St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is one of Christianity's most widely known figures. But for all his celebrity, his life remains somewhat of a mystery. Many of the stories traditionally associated with St. Patrick, including the famous account of his banishing all the snakes from Ireland, are false, the products of hundreds of years of exaggerated storytelling.