MICHAELMAS DAY

 

Feast of the Archangels

As the autumn equinox nears

Michaelmas marks the turning

Of the husbandman's year

MICHAELMAS DAISY

 

Lovely Miss Aster,

My flower girl Maisie

My natural beauty

I love her like crazy

My own precious

Michaelmas Daisy

ST SWITHIN AND QUEEN EMMA'S ORDEAL

 

Before the Norman Conquests

Princess Emma of Normandy

Became Queen Emma of England

Wife to King Æthelred the Unready

And then to Canute the Great of Denmark

She was falsely accused of adultery

But the night before her ordeal by fire

As she slept in Wargrave uneasily

Saint Swithun appeared in a dream

To tell her she would be set free

ST SWITHIN AND THE WINCHESTER EGG WOMAN

 

An old lady's eggs had been smashed

On the new stone bridge by workmen

Swithin picked the broken eggs up and

They miraculously became whole again

THE FEAST DAY OF SAINT COLUMBA

 

The feast day of Saint Columba

Is an Irish National Day

When the Irish people

Celebrate Saint Columba's Day

 

PENTECOST SUNDAY

 

Pentecost Sunday is

The Feast of Weeks

White Sunday

Is the fiftieth day

And Marks the end

Of Eastertide

Celebrating the descent

Of the Holy Spirit

Upon the Apostles

And all followers

Of Jesus Christ

ASCENSION DAY

 

Ascension Day

Is the fortieth day

Of Eastertide

And celebrates

With great solemnity

The Ascension of the Lord