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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. Saint Martin's Day or Martinmas (obsolete: Martlemas), [1] [2] and historically called Old Halloween [A] or All Hallows Eve, [B] [3] [4] is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours and is celebrated in the liturgical year on 11 November.
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The eve before Saint Martin's Day: Mortensaften: 11 November is a Catholic day. Sankt Morten is the Danish name of Saint Martin of Tours. According to legend, Martin was forced to become a bishop by his parishioners and tried to hide in a barn. However, the noise of the geese gave him away.
Laternelaufen pronounced [laˈtɛʁnəˌlaʊ̯fn̩] ('Walking with Lanterns') is a German tradition for the time around St. Martin's Day. On 11 November (or later/earlier for reasons of appointment) children (usually in kindergarten and elementary school age) walk along the streets holding colourful, often self-made lanterns while singing ...
11 November, the 11th of the 11th, is an important date. 11 November is exactly 40 days before 21 December, the shortest day. This happens to be the feast day of sint Maarten (st. Martin's day). This day is celebrated in some parts of Groningen, North Holland and the southern part of Limburg and to a lesser extent in South Holland and Zeeland ...
The main festival that is celebrated is St Martin's day (Festa de São Martinho or Arraial de São Martinho in Portuguese) celebrated on the 10 and 11 November in the grounds of the church, where fires are made by locals and local food is made such as roasted chestnuts (Marking the beginning of the new chestnut harvest season), Espetada, Bolo do caco, and Bacalhau.
Children's Day ; Christian feast day: Bartholomew of Grottaferrata; Martin of Tours (Roman Catholic Church), and its related observances. Menas; Mercurius ; Søren Kierkegaard (Lutheran Church) Theodore the Studite; November 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) End of World War I-related observances: Armistice Day (France, Belgium and Serbia)
The liturgical year of the Ambrosian Rite begins the First Sunday of Advent, which however takes place 2 weeks earlier than in the Roman Rite, so that there are six Sundays in Advent, and the key-day of the beginning of Advent is not St. Andrew's Day (30 November) but St. Martin's Day (11 November), which begins the Sanctorale.
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