Web site here: St. Urho's Day Web Links from the Canadian Friends of Finland.
St. Urho, of course, drove the grasshoppers out of Finland to save the grape crop.
At sunrise on March 16, Finnish women and children dressed in royal purple and nile green gather around the shores of the many lakes in Finland and chant what St. Urho chanted many years ago: "Heinasirkka, heinasirkka, menetaalta hiiteen." (Translated: "Grasshopper, grasshopper, go away!")
