THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS

 

Candlemas Day,

The festival of lights

40 days after Epiphany

Is celebrated to mark

The Presentation of Christ

In The Temple,

THE FEAST DAY OF SAINT BRIGIT

 

The feast day of Saint Brigit

Is an Irish National Day

When the Irish people

Celebrate Saint Brigit's Day

THE FEAST OF EPIPHANY

 

Epiphany is a Christian festival in honour of

The coming of the Three Kings to the infant Lord,

The first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles

That celebrates the revelation of God in his Son

Known as the Day of the Lights or Three King’s Day

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