Calling all green thumbs:
This new ministry will keep St. Paul’s gardens in bloom, so bring a spade and dig in.
Congratulations to all who made the May Day garden party a success. Special thanks to all of you who donated generously. We now have the funds for a lot of mulch and flowers to get the grounds in shape for summer. And take a look at all those hats!
Why do we call ourselves St. Fiacre’s Guild?
FIACRE (d. c. 670) was one of the many Irishmen who sought ‘exile for Christ’, in Meaux, where its bishop, St. Faro, gave him land for a hermitage at Breuil, a few miles away. The presence of his life in the Nova Legenda Angliae reveals that he was known in late medieval England. He is patron of horticulturalists because of his skill in this craft during his life.
Feast: 30 August, 1 Sepember (in France and Ireland), but 18 August in Nova Legenda Angliae. From the Oxford Dictionary of Saints by David Hugh Farmer (OUP, 1982).
