EPIPHANY IS DESCRIBED IN THE LEXICON

 

Epiphany is described in the lexicon

Simply as a divine manifestation

But when she disrobed before me

It was a Magnificent Divest-ion

THE FEAST OF ST MARTIN OF TOURS

 

St. Martin's Day,

Or the Feast of St. Martin,

Martinstag, Martinmas

Or Martin le Miséricordieux

The Feast of St Martin of Tours,

Is a time for feasting celebrations

On November the 11th

When the autumn wheat fields

Were sown for the following year

And the annual slaughter

Of well fattened cattle

To produce "Martinmas beef"

And it was also the time

When hiring fairs were held

Where farm unemployed labourer’s

Could find new work

 

Feast Day November 11th

ST MARTIN OF TOURS

Started out as a Roman soldier

But was baptized as an adult

And then became a monk

It is understood that he was a kind man

Who led a quiet and simple life

The most famous legend of his life,

Was when he was still a soldier,

It is the story about the time

That he cut his cloak in half

To share with a beggar

To protect him during a snowstorm,

Which saved the beggars life

That same night he dreamed that Jesus

Was wearing the half-cloak

Martin heard Jesus say to the angels,

"Here is Martin, the Roman soldier

Who is not baptised; he has clothed me"

SAINT CRISPIN'S DAY

 

Saint Crispin's Day

Falls on 25th October

And is the feast day

Of the martyred twins

Crispin and Crispinian

The Christian Saints

Martyred c. 286

THE FAVERSHAM SAINTS

 

A Christian Legend tells

That Crispin and Crispinian

The Roman Princes,

Saints and shoemakers,

Lived for a short time

During the 3rd century

In the Kent town of Faversham

The association is recalled

By a plaque on the Swan,

In Market Street

CRISPIN AND CRISPINIAN

 

Born to a noble Roman family

In the 3rd century AD,

Crispin and Crispinian,

Persecuted for their faith,

Fled their homeland

And travelled to Gaul

And preached Christianity

To the Gaul’s in Soissons.

They made shoes by night

To support themselves

And also aided the poor

But their evangelical success

Brought them to the attention

Of a jealous Rictus Varus,

Governor of Belgic Gaul,

Who brought their good works

To a savage end

THE FEAST DAY OF SAINTS CRISPIN AND CRISPINIAN

 

25th October is the feast day

Of Crispin and Crispinian

Although now removed

From the Universal Liturgical calendar

Of the Roman Catholic Church

The Sainted Twins

Are still commemorated

On that day in the Roman Martyrology

And the feast remains as a

"Black Letter Saints' Day"

In the calendar of the Anglican

Book of Common Prayer