St. Martin's Day
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Saint Martin's Day or Martinmas, and historically called Old Halloween or Old All Hallows Eve, is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours and is celebrated in the liturgical year on 11 November. In the
St Martin's Day Kermis by Peeter Baltens (16th century), shows peasants celebrating by drinking the first wine of the season, and a horseman representing the saint
A tradition on St Martin's Eve or Day is to share a goose for dinner.
St. Martin's procession in Frankfurt
St. Martin's procession with children carrying paper lanterns in West Germany in 1949
Advent
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Advent is a season observed in most Christian denominations as a time of waiting and preparation for both the celebration of Jesus's birth at Christmas and Jesus's return at the Second Coming. It begi
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…the fortieth of'). This fasting is rarely observed now. This period was later shortened to begin on the Sunday before December and became the current Advent within a few centuries. In the Archdiocese of Milan, Italy, according to Ancient Ambrosian Liturgical usage, the feast of St Martin is followed by the…
Lighting the candles of an Advent wreath in a church service
A representation of Saint Perpetuus
Rorate Mass in Prague Cathedral, Czech Republic
Celebration of a Advent vespers. Cope and antependium are violet, the liturgical colour of Advent in the Roman Rite.