![]() ![]() At our mid-northern latitudes, watch for the Harvest Moon to shine from dusk until dawn for the next few to several days. And that meant farmers could work on in the fields, bringing in the crops by moonlight. For farmers bringing in the harvest, before the days of tractor lights, it meant there was no long period of darkness between sunset and moon-rise for several days after full moon. That fact was important to people in earlier times. The Harvest Moon Northern Hemisphere Earth Event October 2017 Another apparition, on Mount Gargano in Apulia, Italy, is honored by a memorial feast in the whole Western Church on May 8. In France the apparition of the Archangel at Mont-Saint-Michel is commemorated on October 16. The churches of the Greek Rite keep the feast on November 8, and a second festival on September 6. All through medieval times Saint Michael’s Day was kept as a great religious feast (in France even up to the last century) and one of the annual holiday seasons as well. The Synod of Mainz introduced it into all the countries of the Carolingian Empire and prescribed its celebration as a public holiday. His feast, originally combined with the remembrance of all angels, had been celebrated in Rome from the early centuries on September 29. Roman and Orthodox Churches separate them into two categories (with the unnamed angels having their feast day on October 2nd). ![]() The Anglican church celebrates all angels, both name and unnamed on one day. It is the most ancient of all the angel festivals. ![]() The Feast Day of Saint Michael ( Italy September 29th ) As it is considered ill-advised to eat them after 29 September, a Michaelmas pie is made from the last of the season. Satan cursed the fruit, scorched them with his fiery breath, and stamped and spat on them, so that they would be unfit for eating. Michael expelled Lucifer, the devil, from heaven, he fell from the skies and landed in a prickly blackberry bush. Folklore in the British Isles suggests that Michaelmas day is the last day that blackberries can be picked. Nuts were traditionally cracked on Michaelmas Eve. In remembrance of absent friends or those who had died, special Struans, blessed at an early morning Mass, were given to the poor in their names. The bread was made from equal parts of barley, oats, and rye without using any metal implements. The custom of baking a special bread or cake, called Struan Micheil, St Michael's bannock, or Michaelmas Bannock on the eve of the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel probably originated in the Hebrides. Saint Michaelmas Day Christian September 29th ![]()
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