St. Urho’s Day, March 16th

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The untrue story of Saint Urho.

In 1956 in the small town of Virginia, Minnesota, Richard L. Mattson and his coworker at the local department store Gene McCavic, both Finnish Americans, decided it was high time the Finns had their own holiday honoring a saint. Since the popular legend says that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, they decided to come up with a colorful saint of their own.