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February 6 is the Feast Day of Saint Koji, patron of lichens. The story goes that Koji fled from an arranged marriage and prayed to heaven, whereupon she was transformed into a sheet of lichen on the side of a great stone. She stayed there for some three hundred years, until a holy man came and prayed beside her, whereupon she emerged from the lichen and spoke in a strange language to him. Owing to substantial linguistic drift in the intervening three hundred years, it took some time to locate a translator, who confirmed that Koji was asking if her fiancée had died yet. They confirmed that he had passed away some two-hundred-and-fifty years earlier, and Koji proclaimed it a miracle. She founded a church upon the great stone and was duly canonized upon her death.

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