Happy Feast DaySaint Florian250-304Feast Day: May 4Patronage: firemen, brewers, chimney-sweeps, prot

Happy Feast Day
Saint Florian
250-304
Feast Day: May 4
Patronage: firemen, brewers, chimney-sweeps, protector from fires, floods, battles, drowning victims, Poland, Austria

Saint Florian was a Roman officer, martyred during Diocletian’s reign. He was scourged, flayed, set on fire, and finally thrown in a river with a milestone. Many miracles are attributed to him; one is that he saved a town from being destroyed by fire after he prayed and threw a bucket of water on the blaze. His relics are interned at the Augustinian Abbey of St. Florian.
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