There will be a Saint Patrick’s Day celebration at Saint Charles Borromeo Church, located on 132 McKeen St. in Brunswick, on Saturday from 7-9 p.m.

The evening, which is a fundraiser for the high school youth ministry mission trip to Brooklyn, features live music, dancing, step dancing, a silent auction, Irish soda bread, coffee, tea, and desserts.

The cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children under age 12 with a maximum of $25 for a family.

The feast day on March 17 holds special significance in the Diocese of Portland as Saint Patrick, along with Saint Jean Baptiste, are the diocese’s secondary patrons, recalling the proud heritage of the Irish and French foundations of the Church in Maine. Saint Patrick, who was captured by Irish raiders as a teenager in the fifth century, ultimately escaped his enslavement, entered the Church, and returned to Ireland where he brought the message of the Gospel to the very people who had kept him in slavery.

“We give thanks for the way in which Patrick carried out his mission, and the way in which the people of Ireland, carried on that same mission. After finding meaning in that Gospel for his own life, he realized he had to share it by helping people to know the message of the Gospel, and the call to love God and neighbor,” said Bishop Robert P. Deeley at a Saint Patrick’s Day Mass in Portland last year. “We pray that we might live like Saint Patrick, filled with the love of God he found in Jesus Christ, and anxious to bring the Good News to others.”

Bishop Deeley, whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from County Galway, Ireland, will celebrate a Saint Patrick’s Day Mass on Thursday, March 17, at 12:15 p.m. at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, located on 307 Congress St. in Portland. In addition, the bishop will also celebrate a Mass on Saturday, March 12, at 4:30 p.m. at Saint Pius X Church, located on 492 Ocean Ave. in Portland. The Mass precedes the annual Saint Patrick’s Day Dinner in the Saint Pius X Church hall at 6 p.m. The bishop will attend the dinner as well.

For more information about the Feast Day of Saint Patrick or to view a calendar of other related events and Masses in the diocese, visit portlanddiocese.org/feast-saint-patrick.