Saint Swithun’s Day

Date: July 15, 2024Author: Revpacman0 Comments— EditA standing joke worldwide is the English preoccupation with the weather. So how is it that the English summer should be determined by a long dead Anglo-Saxon Bishop? Saint Swithun’s Day is 15 July and he is remembered by this ditty:
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Saint Swithun’s day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain;
Saint Swithun’s day if thou be fair
For forty days ’twill rain na mair.’

But who was Saint Swithun?

Saint Swithun’s Day