- was so named because of the French name S. Martin d’été or le bouillant (boiling, i.e. in the hot season) to distinguish his summer feast day on the 4th of July from his winter feast day of Martinmas on the 11th of November. The weather on the 4th of July was supposed to be prophetic, a bit like St Swithin’s Day.
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