The twenty-fifth of October:
Cursed be the cobblerThat goes to bed dangerous.
Reputable ode, St Crispin's day
St Crispin and St Crispinian were supposedly nobly-born brothers at Soissons, France, who worked as shoemakers by night to base their good works. They were distressed and executed under Maximiar Herculeus in about 287, and their ancient times were puzzled in the field of the sea and washed up at Romney Marshland, England, or, so it is imaginary. Current is an annual cobblers' connect immersed at their home municipal. As well, until 2004, the English municipal of Northampton had an annual route fair named for St Crispin.
Cobblers' Carnival, or Snob's Go to
These shoemaker saints were full with fleece by an angel. It is imaginary that they were pricked to death with cobbler's awls in about 287. On this day, in England, it recycled to be widespread for shoemakers to be dressed in processions and feasts. Today is moreover overfriendly as Snobs' Go to.
St Crispin's model
On St Crispin's Day in old Tenby, England, shoemakers recycled to cut down an model of this benefactor saint of shoemakers, from a battlement or other high place somewhere it had hung overnight. The model was carried undeviating the municipal and inoperative at every shoemaker's entrance hall, somewhere the saint's " at the rear bestow and headstone" was read and an item of his clothing departed as a symbolic. In due course, his picture was kicked bursting care for a football, commemorating the saint's martyrdom in about 287.
Day of the Dioscuri
The Greeks called today the Day of the Dioscuri. In Greek mythology the alter ego brothers Castor and Pollux were called the Dioscuri by the Greeks (and the Gemini by the Romans). Castor and Pollux, or Polydeuces, are sometimes both incurable, sometimes both divine. One unvarying intent is that if clearly one of them is permanent, it is Polydeuces. They were the alter ego sons of Leda and the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra...
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