Irish to become a minority in Ireland.
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St Patrick cannot be at all places at once. Someone with influence had to promote the story to make him a national hero.
Elites just mean Influencers who are in leadership roles over a lot of people.
If I came hit the streets and told Random people. "Hey everyone... this is Joe who fought in the Iraq war..let me tell you what he did".
The odds of him getting a holiday after him would be slim.
Now if the media promoted the same story to many people in the area. This is how you turn his story into a hero.
I am not talking about what happened.
I am talking about how it was executed.
A hero isn't born out of thin air.
In most cases, the masses are not present to witness the hero's storyline live.
This is why marketing and promotion of an event are needed to hype it up. If there is no marketing and build it.
The average person will not be able to relate fully because they weren't there to witness the heroic event.
Ireland’s not as big as America. St. Patrick spent 40 years evangelizing in Ireland. Many Irish saw firsthand for themselves the works of St Patrick. Marketing and promotion was basically word of mouth back then, and secondhand stories would’ve been from trusted locals.
Yes, word of mouth.
But someone of influence is the person that turns it into a holiday.
There are tons of stories that go viral these days. After a certain point.
They will die out and another story will take its place. Someone of influence will listen to stories they can use for their purposes.
Not sure if you remember that guy from Subway Jared. He got in trouble now.
But his story got popular at Indiana University first.
It wasn't until Subway came along to make him into something bigger.
You are correct. Word of the mount can happen from the people. It does all the time.
To turn that into a holiday will come from the leaders of that community. They cannot turn every story into a holiday.
They have to pick and choose.