Here in Spain, mainly in rural Andalucia, many small towns and villages usually "take the Saint out in procession" to ask for rain, meaning they take the statue of the local Saint (Who supposedly advocates for that city to the eyes of the Allmighty) and make a procession to pray for having rain (Southern Spain is a very dry place as you might know, and it badly hurts harvests). But it has not been rare over history to take the Saint out to ask for rain, and then having to take him out some weeks later to actually pray for rain to stop, when a mediterranean storm fixed over there
