St. Clement's
Www.lifehistoriesofthesain St. Clement's Saint Clement's Day was traditionally, and in some places still is, celebrated on the 23 November, a welcome festival between Halloween and Christmas . Pope Clement I is the patron saint of metalworkers and blacksmiths , and so these workers traditionally enjoyed a holiday on his feast day . Many legends surround Saint Clement , some suggest he was the first man to refine iron from ore, and to shoe a horse. Clementine customs may be survivals of earlier pagan rituals, a confusion of Saint Clement with the early Saxon Wayland, or Wayland the smith , a mythical metalworker. He shares this feast day, which marks the beginning of winter, with the saint.
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