ice saints

== English == === Etymology === Perhaps a calque of German Eisheilige; compare French saints de glace. === Noun === ice saints pl (normally plural, singular ice saint) (sometimes capitalized) The saints Pancras of Rome, Servatius of Tongeren, Mamertus of Vienne and/or Boniface of Tarsus, and sometimes Sophia of Rome, whose feast days are on May 11th though 15th. A spell of cold weather in May on or around those dates. For quotations using this term, see Citations:ice saints. ==== See also ==== blackthorn winter blackberry winter St. Luke's summer St. Martin's summer