Feast day: June 8
St. Médard
A widely loved bishop of northern Gaul, generous to the poor and remembered in countless folk customs, who by tradition founded a famous festival crowning a virtuous maiden with roses.
French weather-lore says that as it goes on his feast, so it goes for forty days — the country's own version of the St. Swithin's Day rain legend.
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