St. Swithin’s Day Joint Drive Friday, July 15, 2022
Joint FBCC/SBMOC breakfast drive to celebrate St. Swithin’s Day. This was a 45 minute run starting at 9:00 am from FBCC member Jud Chapin’s Brown Building, around Lake Lanier, through Tryon Hunting Country and ending at Southern Manners on Mills St, Columbus, NC for breakfast just before 10:00 am. There were 20 cars and 32 people in attendance.
If you’re not in the know about St. Swithin’s Day…St. Swithin’s Day, (July 15), a day on which, according to folklore in England, the weather for a subsequent period is dictated. In popular belief, if it rains on St. Swithin’s Day, it will rain for 40 days, but if it is fair, 40 days of fair weather will follow. St. Swithin was bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862. At his request he was buried in the churchyard, where rain and the steps of passersby might fall on his grave. According to legend, after his body was moved inside the cathedral on July 15, 971, a great storm ensued. The first textual evidence for the weather prophecy appears to have come from a 13th- or 14th-century entry in a manuscript at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
