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Saint Crispin's Day, or the Feast of Saint Crispin, falls on 25 October and is the feast day of the Christian saints Crispin and Crispinian, twins who were martyred c. 286. [1] They are both the patron saints of cobblers, leather workers, tanners, saddlers and glove, lace and shoemakers (among other professions).
The feast day of Saints Crispin and Crispinian is 25 October. [4] Although this feast was removed from the Roman Catholic Church's universal liturgical calendar following the Second Vatican Council, the two saints are still commemorated on that day in the most recent edition of the Roman Church's martyrology.
John Gilbert – The Morning of the Battle of Agincourt (1884), Guildhall Art Gallery On the morning of 25 October, the French were still waiting for additional troops to arrive. The Duke of Brabant (about 2,000 men), [ 66 ] the Duke of Anjou (about 600 men), [ 66 ] and the Duke of Brittany (6,000 men, according to Monstrelet), [ 67 ] were all ...
Saint Crispin may refer to: Crispin and Crispinian (3rd century), martyrs (memorial: 25 October) Crispin of Pavia (5th century), bishop (7 January)
He lived an austere life devoid of the luxuries of the times. In Orvieto he lived on the first floor in a small room and he rose in the morning to meditate before he attended a number of Masses. For lunch he ate little vegetable soup or a mouthful of bread dipped in water. He would often beg for alms or go out to visit either convicts in the ...
On Christmas morning, the family heads to church at St. Mary Magdalene on the Sandringham estate and mingles with the public before heading back to Sandringham House and the traditional Christmas ...
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The St Crispin's Day speech is a part of William Shakespeare's history play Henry V, Act IV Scene iii(3) 18–67. On the eve of the Battle of Agincourt , which fell on Saint Crispin's Day , Henry V urges his men, who were vastly outnumbered by the French, to imagine the glory and immortality that will be theirs if they are victorious.