St Sixtus and the Wind

The feast of St Sixtus fell on 6 August. The 1849 edition of Brand gives two Latin lines on it quoted by the antiquary Cole in his manuscript collections. They bid the reader remember strong winds on St Sixtus’s Day, and say that if the wind gives no rest the corn will do well. It is one of a run of old weather rules that the book prints for the summer saints’ days.