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Clement (St.)

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Patron saint of tanners, being himself a tanner. His symbol is a pot, because November the 23rd, St. Clement’s Day, is the day on which the early Danes used to go about begging for ale.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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