The Saints' Page

All religions honour special people to whose lives they look for guidance. Among the God's Gardeners, these people are known as "Saints," and they are honoured for their contributions to the environment.

Many Gardener Saints are mentioned in The Year of the Flood. Click here for the list of Gardener Saints and Festivals.

Readers and Blog commentators have suggested many additions to the list of Gardener Saints and Festivals. Click here to see their suggestions.

Is there someone you’d like to honour privately with Gardener Sainthood, while at the same time help to support the work of our chosen environmental organizations? Order a Saint scroll for them, below.

Add is their name, their Saint's Day ( a birthday or anniversary), their country, their jurisdiction - for instance, for "Saint Rachel Carson," the jurisdiction is "All Birds" - and the action that has earned their sainthood. Then download the Scroll and print it out, and/or or email it to your own chosen Saint.

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SAINTS AND FESTIVALS in The Year of the Flood

FESTIVAL	SAINT/DAY
All Fallows’ Eve
Creation Day
The Feast of Adam and All Primates	Saint Yossi Leshem of Barn Owls
The Festival of Arks	Podocarp Day Saint Bashir Alouse Saint Allan Sparrow
Saint Euell’s Day	Saint Euell Gibbons
Mole Day	Saint E.F. Schumacher Saint Jane Jacobs Saint Sigurdsdottirr of Gullfoss Saint Wayne Grady of Vultures Saint James Lovelock The Blessed Gautama Buddha Saint Maria Sibylla Merian of Metamorphosis Saint Linnaeus of Botanical Nomenclature The Feast of Crocodylidae Saint Stephen Jay Gould of the Jurassic Shales Coleoptera Day Saint Gilberto Silva of Bats Saint Orlando Garrido of Lizards Saint Bridget Stutchbury of Shade Coffee
April Fish	Saint Francis Assisi Jesus of Nazareth, Fish Conservationist
The Feast of Serpent Wisdom	Saint Jacques Cousteau Saint E.O. Wilson of Hymenoptera Saint Aleksander Zawazki of Galicia
Pollination Day	Saint Suryamani Bhagat of India Saint Stephen King of Purcora Forest in New Zealand Saint Odigha of Nigeria
Saint Dian, Martyr	Saint Dian Fossey, Martyr Saint Jerome of Lions Saint Robert Burns of Mice Saint Farley Mowat of Wolves Saint Christopher Smart of Cats Ikhawan al-Safa and their Letter of Animals
Predator Day	Saint Chico Mendes, Martyr Saint Wen Bo Saint Anil Agarwal Saint Nganeko Minhinnic of Mankau Saint Mahatma Gandi Saint David Suzuki Saint Anna Atkins Saint Tim Flannery Saint Ichida-San Saint Peter Matthiessen
Saint Rachel and All Birds	Saint Rachel Carson Saint Henri Fabre
Saint Terry and All Wayfarers	Saint Terry Fox Saint Sojourner Truth Saint Laurence “Titus“ Oates Saints Shackleton and Crozier
Saint Julian and All Souls	Saint Julian of Norwich

List of Saints Provided by Commentators on the Propose-A-Saint Blogposting: Thank You All!

Saint Helen Caldicott of the Nuclear-Free Future (the brilliant Dr. Helen Caldicott is the voice for all of us who wish for a brighter future of peace.)
Saint David Suzuki of Balanced Nature
Saint Senator Gaylord Nelson of Earth Day
Saint Hayao Miyuzaki of Environmental Crisis (He is an Asian movie director who deals with the concept that, ’while the environment is mostly...fragile and waning, we see hope if we employ our technology in a way that does not harm nature, there can be coexistence and harmony.’
Saint Edible Todmorden (Saint Edible engages in guerilla gardening, and encourages everyone to plant vegetables, fruit trees, and flowers in any bit of unused soil they come across.)
Saints Randy Paynter, Matt McGlynn, and Camilla Eriksson - founders of website Care2.com
Saint Thomas Hardy of Antivivisection and Prevention of Animal Cruelty
Saint Alice Waters - founder of Chez Panisse and promoter of the Slow Food Movement.
Saint Norman Borlaug- Father of the Green Revolution
Saint Julia Butterfly Hill- an activist who spent 738 days in the top of a Redwood to save an old growth forest from clearcutting
Saint Aldo Leopold- author of Sand County Almanac- one of the seminal books on ecological thinking. Leopold does a marvelous job of illustrating the interconnectedness of the natural world.
Saint Shelia Watt-Cloutier of the Arctic Chill
Saint Wangari Maathai- founder of the Green Belt movement in Africa
Saint Raffi- whose children’s music and whose organization “Evergreen, Everblue”, have inspired many a child and parent to care for, and protect, the Earth. Also nominated for his work in Child Honouring.
Saint Roger Peterson of Bird Identification
Saints Robert and Maria Rodale of Organic Farming, Gardening, and Research
Saints Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Gary Snyder, and Calvin Dewitt (no reasons provided.)
Saint David Orr - for coining the term “environmental literacy”.
Saint Vandana Shiva- for being a great voice in the art of “stepping back and taking a closer look.” Specifically her work on GMOs - not because she thinks the “science” is necessarily evil, but because this science casts a wide wake in societal, economic, and cultural waters.
Saint Tara Cullus (I see David has been mentioned a few times, but let’s add his better half- DSF [David Suzuki Foundation?] is her baby too.)
Saint Wade Davis- Botanist Extraordinaire
Saints Thomas Berry, Joseph Sittler, Saint John Denver of the Rocky Mountains
Saint John Mellencamp of the Family Farm
Saint Judith Collins - the Wandering Gypsy
Saint Sasha Rakoff- founder of Object, who campaigns against “sex object culture”.
Saint Mike Holmes of Home Renovations and Green Innovation
Saint Pete Seeger - for making music that breaks down barriers
Saint Linnaeus- Saint of Taxonomy
Saint Terry Tempest Williams- author of Refuge : An Unnatural History of Family and Place and Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field. She is speaking the truth about nuclear testing in the American West.
Saint Michael Pollan - Saint of gardening, foraging, cooking, writing, and an all around good guy.
Saint Greg Mortenson - builder of schools for girls in Pakistan, transforming the region- one town at a time.
Saint Ken Saro-Wiwa- suggested Saint’s Day November 10. Martyr saint of Indigenous people living on poisoned land.
A general Saints’ Day suggestion for: All elderly ladies with a green thumb and a heap of compost (such as the writer’s granny: Georgette Durou)

Suggested Feast Days

The First Tomato of Summer
The Feast of Seed Saving
The Feast of Canned Apple Sauce (for December)
The Feast of Preventing Waste (Recycling)
The Feast of Used Goods

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