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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Thank You, St. Fiacre!
At last! We have rain! It's a nice soft rain, and the temperatures are dropping. Hurrah! It's been about a month since we've had rain, and my gardens are quite relieved.
I have to thank St. Fiacre, one of the patron saints of gardening. He's not on the Universal Calendar for today, but he's mentioned in the Roman Martyrology for August 30. Not much is known about this Irish abbott, but some information can be found in The Golden Legend, The Catholic Encyclopedia and Catholic Culture, particularly St. Fiacre.
As I was searching (unsuccessfully) for an image of St. Fiacre, I came across a few sites that piqued my interest.
The first site is one I've seen before, Saints Preserved in particular, the page on St. Fiacre. Have any of you dear readers bought anything from here? The offerings have grown and seem to be quite beautiful.
Here's another artist representation of St. Fiacre. Digging Kate Hodgson's site a little deeper, you can find more saint images made from papier mâché. These are just wonderful folk art images, and quite inspiring in more ways than one!
20:45 Posted in Liturgical Year, Nature Study and Gardening | Permalink | Comments (2) | Email this | Tags: Saint Fiacre, St. Fiacre, gardening, patron saint, art
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Thank you for this *wonderful* post, Jenn!! I enjoyed all the links and information on St. Fiacre. (So much inspiration for our middle ages study!) That Saints Preserved site is great - I just bookmarked it! :)
Posted by: Dawn | Thursday, August 31, 2006
Thank you, Dawn. Your medievel unit sounds so great, and you're right, Saints Preserved has a lot of great info and links related to your study.
Posted by: JennGM | Thursday, August 31, 2006
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