SAINT FIACRE OBSCURE GARDEN PATRON.(At Home)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | March 19, 2005 | Copyright

Byline: Adrian Higgins Washington Post

Saint Patrick gets a lot of attention in March, and Saint Francis is a popular garden sculpture. A lesser-known Irish holy man who haunts our shrubberies is Saint Fiacre, the "patron of gardeners."

There will never be a Saint Fiacre's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue. He is unlikely to get a cathedral named after him (though novelist Georges Simenon invented the village of Saint-Fiacre as the home town of his intrepid detective, Inspector Maigret).

Fiacre has a couple of things against him. The first is his name. No ...

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