Day of Mikael Agricola - Finnish Language Day

Today's picture is from Sastamala, I made a geocaching trip there with a friend.

It's Day of Mikael Agricola - Finnish Language Day.

Mikael Agricola was a father of the written language. He translated the New Testament into Finnish and it was published in 1548. In his translation work, Agricola actually had to create the written language in Finnish as at that time there still was no standard way of writing Finnish and there was no printed Finnish literature available. Sometimes he had to create suitable words for issues and items which did not even exist yet in the Finnish language at that time. For example, he is the creator of the Finnish words hallitus (government), esikuva (example) and käsikirjoitus (manuscript).

P.S. Meteorologists forecast that thermal spring could finally arrive this weekend!!!