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Originally Posted by Curly
St Florent sounds much more appropriate, can you tell me more about it? I've googled it, but all I come up with is information about holiday homes and beautiful churches.  |
To tell the truth, there is nothing particular about it.
It's just that, in France at least, we have a name attached to each day, usually saints, like Florent, Pierre, Marguerite, ...
Here, I've found these English articles in Wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_day (sadly, no mention of the french names days here)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_Saints
The list has been expanded these last years to include names that are not part of the Christian tradition.
We usually send wishes or say a kind word to people whose name is the saint of the day.
Here is an english website with the french info :
http://www.happynameday.com/Country.aspx?Country=French
You can see the month of April on this page (French) :
http://www.quelprenom.com/fetes.php
Other resources give a day for each name, such as (French) :
http://offrir-des-fleurs.wifeo.com/f...aiter-en-f.php