Feast day of St Fiaker

Patron saint of gardeners, celebrated on September 1 in Ireland and France, but August 30 in the official Roman Catholic calendar ...

He had the gift of healing by laying on his hands; blindness, polypus, and fevers are mentioned by the old records, and especially a tumour or fistula since called 'le fic de S Fiacre'. Because the Hotel de Saint Fiacre in Paris, France rented carriages, the cabs became known as 'Fiacre cabs', and eventually just as 'fiacres' ...

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