Rick, if St. Patrick was a “closet Prod,” he wouldn’t want his parade switched to September 17th, which is the feast day of St. Robert Bellarmine (1542 to 1621), a Jesuit, cardinal, and one the great Counter-Reformationists. He is a Doctor of the Church and patron saint of, among other things, catechumens, canon lawyers, and the Archdiocese of Cincinnati (maybe that’s because its home to the Reds?). Anyway, as for St. Brendan the Navigator, his feast day is May 16th. You’ve got to love this story (found at the above link) about the Kerryman:

Brendan and his brothers figure in Brendan’s Voyage, a tale of monks travelling the high seas of the Atlantic, evangelizing to the islands, possibly reaching the Americas in the 6th century. At one point they stop on a small island, celebrate Easter Mass, light a fire – and then learn the island is an enormous whale!

He beats Columbus by nine centuries, and says Mass on a whale (must have been a Catholic one). Brendan deserves his own parade!