Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"St. Stephen" is a song by the Grateful Dead, written by Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Robert Hunter and originally released on the 1969 studio album Aoxomoxoa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The same year, a live version of the song was released on Live/Dead , their first concert album.
Some of the songs on Aoxomoxoa were played live briefly and then dropped. Only "China Cat Sunflower" became a set staple through the band's career, with "Dupree's Diamond Blues" somewhat less so. "St. Stephen" was played until 1971, revived in 1976 and 1977 and played a handful of times after that.
Hunt the Wren on the sand at Port St Mary, 2016. Traditionally, a wren was hunted on the Isle of Man every St Stephen's Day, as in Ireland. [9] Usually, the wren's body would be hung inside the 'wren bush' – a ball-shaped frame made from two crossed wreaths of holly or ivy, decorated with ribbons. [9]
We've caught, St. Stephen's Day, in the furze; Although he is little, his family is great, I pray you, good dame, do give us a treat. In 1896 it was noted that the song was rarely performed in this form at that time, as it was more often heard 'in a very corrupt and degenerate form.' [19] The fuller version of the song was reinstated in the 1970s.
"Good King Wenceslas" (Roud number 24754) is a Christmas carol that tells a story of a tenth-century king of Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic) who goes on a journey, braving harsh winter weather, to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen.
St Stephen's House, Oxford – a permanent private hall of the University of Oxford and Anglican theological college; St Stephen's Church, Bristol – a city church built outside the walls c. 1250, rebuilt c. 1430–1490; St Stephen's, Sneinton, Nottingham – has strong links to William Booth and The Salvation Army.
Saint Stephen is also the patron saint of Republika Srpska, one of two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. St. Stephen's Day, 9 January, is celebrated as the Day of the Republika Srpska or Dan Republike, though mainly as an anniversary of the 1992 events rather than as a religious feast.
"St. Stephen and Herod" (Roud 3963, Child 22) is a traditional English Christmas carol. [1] It depicts the martyrdom of Saint Stephen as occurring, with wild anachronism , under Herod the Great , and claims that that was the reason for St. Stephen's Day being the day after Christmas.