Roodmas

[1] Many legends developed, and the story of the “invention,” or the finding of the cross, enhanced by romances, became a favourite throughout Christendom.

[2] The feast entered the Western calendar in the seventh century after Emperor Heraclius recovered the cross from the Persians.

[1] The commemoration of the "Invention of the True Cross', particularly popular in the historical Gallican Rite of the Catholic Church.

[citation needed] In the Philippines, the Santacruzan—a ritual pageant commemorating the Finding of the True Cross—is still held in May as the custom originated in the pre-1970 Filipino Catholic observance of Roodmas.

It was held that if the night before it was wet, it would be followed by a month of dry weather, "and the farmer need be under no apprehension of securing his crops.