If you’ve already had enough of this summer’s heat, July 15 might just become the most important date on your calendar.
After weeks of sweltering temperatures across much of Europe, there is one British saint I never thought I’d find myself calling upon for a little help: St. Swithin.
More than a century after his death, those wishes seemed about to be ignored. Following his canonization, church leaders decided to move St. Swithin’s remains into Winchester Cathedral. According to legend, the heavens objected.
As workers prepared to transfer his relics in 971, torrential rain began
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