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Saint Urho's Day

Saint Urho's Day is held on March 16. Finnish Americans and Finnish Canadians. This event in the second decade of the month March is annual.

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The legend says St. Urho chased the grasshoppers out of ancient Finland, thus saving the grape crop and Finnish vineyards. He did this by uttering the phrase: “Heinäsirkka, heinäsirkka, mene täältä hiiteen” in his "loud and mellifluous voice." (this is usually translated as 'Grasshopper, Grasshopper, Go to Hell! ').” His feast is celebrated by wearing the colors Royal Purple and Nile Green. St. Urho is nearly always represented with grapes and grasshoppers as part of the picture. Urho's Day is observed each year on March 16 in Finland in anticipation of St. Patrick's Day.

Finland still has grasshoppers, and the country still does not grow grapes.

Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts

Buzzards Day on March 15 (Buzzards are another word for turkey vultures, a species of vulture protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918);

International Napping Day on March 15;

Brutus Day on March 15;

Dumbstruck Day on March 15;

Everything You Think is Wrong Day on March 15;

True Confessions Day on March 15;

Ides of March on March 15;

Quilting Day on March 16 (this is a popular craft and art - embroidery, applique, patchwork, quilted fabric - two pieces of fabric stitched through through, between which there is a layer of batting or other non-woven material);