tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post4679920405658205739..comments2023-11-05T12:59:29.404+02:00Comments on Csíkszereda musings: Frozen SaintsAndyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11294221123964774524noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-58704352105941230112009-02-03T06:45:00.000+02:002009-02-03T06:45:00.000+02:00This is apparently also a Czech / Slovak custom to...This is apparently also a Czech / Slovak custom too. I recall my Babi (Grandmother) mentioning the "Three Frozen Ones" (Tri Zmrlici). It too had a great deal to do with determining the best time to plant. If I recall correctly, the last frozen one had to be "out" before it was safe to plant (e.g. had to be after the last Saint's Feast Day). If I understand it correctly, if it was a particularly harsh spring, one could somehow speed up God's weather pattern if you "threaten" to bury a statue of one of the saints head-first in the soil until the weather improved. P.A. Drahozal / musicpad@aol.comMusicPADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03085081023939844227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-23653545559898378672007-05-14T11:29:00.000+03:002007-05-14T11:29:00.000+03:00I do not know exactly the English version of the n...I do not know exactly the English version of the names but in the folk wisdom: St.Pankracy, St. Serwacy and St. Bonifacy are known in my native country - Poland as "cold gardeners".<BR/>I read your posts (especially concerning Hungarians and their lives in Transylvania) with interest,Andy. GBUchrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14282347747888265988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689571.post-2648976570400396282007-05-12T02:17:00.000+03:002007-05-12T02:17:00.000+03:00The Catholic Encyclopedia is a wonderful source fo...The Catholic Encyclopedia is a wonderful source for this; Szervác appears to be St Servatus, a fourth-century Armenian bishop of Tongres notable for hosting St Athanasius when he had been thrown out of Alexandria for theological reasons, and for predicting Attila the Hun.<BR/><BR/>Orban is a third-century Pope, and Bonifác a seventh-century bishop of Ferentino.<BR/><BR/>I'd always thought Pancras was a corruption of Pantokrator, but he appears to have been a fourth-century bishop.Tom Womackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16704310173473318448noreply@blogger.com