Wine saints

Depending on the country, wine-growing region or even place, different people are venerated as patron saints of the winegrowers(winegrowers, wine merchants, coopers and other viticultural professions). They are saints or beatified persons, most of whom died as martyrs. Their commemoration days often have a direct link to viticulture in relation to the weather and the vegetation cycle, which is often depicted in rhyme in the peasant rules. The numerous wine saints with their days of remembrance are:

Weinheilige - Petrus & Paulus, Martin von Tours, Sebastian, Pankratius, Urban von Langres

Bartholomew - August 24
Boniface - 14 May
Cyriacus - August 8
Donatus of Arezzo - August 7
Florian - 4 May
Florinus of Vintschgau - November 17
Goar - July 6
John - 27 December
John the Baptist - June 24
Kilian - July 8
Laurentius or Laurenz or Lorenz - August 10
Mary - 1st January
Mamertus - 11 May
Martin - November 11th = Martini
Medardus - 8 June
Nepomuk - 16 May
Pankratius - 12 May
Peter and Paul or Peter and Paul (in the picture) - 29 and 30 June
Sebastian - 20 January
Servatius - 13 May
Severinus of Noricum - January 8
Sixtus - August 7
Sophie (see also under Eisheilige) - 15 May
Urban - May 25
Vincent or Vincentius of Valencia - 22 January
Vitus or Veit - 15 June
Werner von Bacharach - April 19

See also under bible, ice saints, religion and wine gods, as well as a list of many old customs and former wine-growing functions under customs in viticulture.

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