I'm sure I'm not the only one to wonder: what do venereal diseases,
gardeners, and Parisian taxi drivers have in common?
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:56:10 +0100 (BST),
GP. Ferzoco <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Today, 1 September, is the feast of ...
>
>* Fiacre or Fiachra (670?)
> - invoked against venereal diseases; patron of gardeners and of
>Parisian taxi drivers; relics at Meaux are still visited (in fact the
>shrine was particularly popular in the seventeenth century)
D. Shepherd
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