Today is the feast of St Fiacre- better known in Ireland as St. Fiachra. He was a hermit in Kilkenny when he started getting overwhelmed with people looking for him to cure them- he was reckoned to be a healer. So (rather like myself) he fled to France where he also became lionised but he seemed better able to withstand the pressure here (better food? Climate ?)
Anyway he became much revered in France as the patron saint of gardeners and it was at l’Hotel St Fiacre in Paris that the cab trade was founded so he also gave his name to the Paris Taxi.
He gets pictured in a lot of churches wielding a shovel and looking very homey, worth claiming in fact.