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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.
The corresponding Western season of preparation for Christmas, which also has been called the Nativity Fast [2] and St. Martin's Lent, has taken the name of Advent.
Associated with Advent as a time of penitence was a period of fasting, known also as St Martin's Lent or the Nativity Fast. [19] According to Saint Gregory of Tours the celebration of Advent began in the fifth century when the Bishop Perpetuus directed that starting with the St. Martin's Day on 11 November until Christmas, one fasts three times ...
The modern-day Advent calendar doesn't quite cover the days' Advent is observed and usually starts on Dec. 1. Calendars help herald the arrival of Christmas by marking each day with something like ...
Roman Catholic Gaudete Sunday Mass in which the priest is wearing the customary rose vestments. The season of Advent originated as a fast of 40 days in preparation for Christmas, commencing on the day after the feast of Saint Martin (11 November), whence it was often called Saint Martin's Lent, a name by which it was known as early as the fifth century.
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.
Fridays and Saturdays in Advent were days of abstinence, and until early in the 20th century, the Fridays of Advent were also days of fasting. The vigils observed included the Saturday before Pentecost , October 31 (the vigil of All Saints ), December 24 ( Christmas Eve), December 7 (the vigil of the Immaculate Conception ) and August 14 (the ...
Telemann's ideal cycle thus consists of four Sundays of Advent; Seven occasions from Christmas to Epiphany; Nine Sundays between Epiphany and Lent; Six Sundays of Lent; 14 occasions from Easter to Trinity; 27 Sundays after Trinity; Three Marian Feasts, St. John's Day (24 June) and Michaelmas – totalling 72 occasions for which he provided a ...