Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Happy St. Urho's Day !!

St. Urho is the patron saint of Finland (whoever heard of St. Henry?), best known for saving the Finnish grape harvest a long time ago from a plague of locusts by swinging his mighty axe and banishing the pesky critters via the saying below. Which, loosely translated, means, "Begone, you pesky critters!" . Here's a statue of good old St. Urho.
And for those of you who are a trifle lacking in Finnish legends, here's the Wiki article on him. Curiously, there was no St. Urho's Day Parade here in Phoenix today.

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