Saint Nicholas of Flüe Day in Obwalden, Switzerland
Saint Nicholas of Flüe Day in Obwalden, Switzerland is held on September 25. Saint Nicholas of Flüe was a Swiss hermit and ascetic who is the patron saint of Switzerland. He is sometimes invoked as Brother Klaus. This event in the third decade of the month September is annual. 
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Saint Nicholas of Flüe, byname Brother Klaus, German Sankt Niklaus von Flüe or Bruder Klaus, (born March 21?, 1417, Flüeli, near Sachseln, Obwalden, Switzerland—died March 21, 1487, Ranft; canonized 1947; feast day in Switzerland September 25, elsewhere March 21), hermit, popular saint, and Swiss folk hero. His intervention in a conflict between cantonal factions over the admission of Fribourg and Solothurn to the Swiss Confederation led to the agreement of Stans (December 22, 1481), which forestalled civil war and strengthened the federative bond of the member cantons.
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