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Upcoming Events
Monday, November 10th, 2008
5.00pm We will play the story of Sankt Martin in German for everybody who can understand German
5.30pm Lantern procession also for non German speakers. Please, bring your lantern or torch.
We will meet at CLCB.
For more info: November 11th is a special day in the U.S., Canada and German-speaking Europe, but when North Americans are observing Veterans Day/Remembrance Day, most Austrians and German Catholics are celebrating a different kind of holiday. The Feast of Saint Martin, the Germanic Martingstag celebration, is more like Halloween and Thanksgiving rolled into one. Martinstag or Martini commemorates Sankt Martin (c. 317 — 397), Bishop of Tours, one of the most revered European saints. The best-known legend connected with Saint Martin is the dividing of the cloak (die Mantelteilung), when Martin, then a soldier in the Roman army, tore his cloak in two to share it with a freezing beggar at Amiens.
In the past, Martinstag was celebrated as the end of the harvest season (thanksgiving). For workers and the poor it was a time when they had a chance to enjoy some of the bounty and get a few crumbs from the nobles' table. Today in many parts of Europe the feast is still celebrated by processions of children with candle-lit lanterns singing the song "Ich geh mit meiner Laterne".
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