J a N U a R Y

J a N U a R Y

J A N U A R Y 1 Happy New Year! This 7th Day of Christmas is a traditional day for wassailing. 2 8th Day of Christmas St. Macarius's Day: 3 patron saint of confectioners. 9th Day of Christmas St. Genevieve's Day: Sacred to Paris. 4 10th Day of Christmas St. Titus’s and St. Gregory’s Day; 7 St. Rigobert and St. Ramon too. St. Distaff's Day, Plough Monday, Copperman's Day Partly work and partly play, 5 Ye must on St. Distaff’s Day. Twelfth Night (11th Day of Christmas) The traditional day for women to return to It's the Eve of the Epiphany, and the last of the their spinning after Christmas. This year, midwinter gift bearers arrive: In Latin America; it also happens to be Plough Monday, when los tres reyes will deliver gifts tonight. In Italy, that’s the men began the agricultural year with a the job of the kindly old witch known as la befana. ceremonial ploughing of the frozen ground (and some revelry). Both Plough Monday and Copperman’s Day fall on the Monday after 6 Epiphany. Copperman's Day is an old Dutch Epiphany (12th Day of Christmas) printers’ holiday: the apprentices got the day Epiphany marks the arrival of the Magi at the stable off for their own projects to show off the in Bethlehem. In many places, like Mexico, today is printing skills they’d learnt in the form of a the big day for Christmas gifts, for it is El Dia de printed keepsake exchanged for a copper. Reyes. Epiphany brings with it the traditional closing of the Yuletide festivities... though some traditions carry on all the way to Candlemas! 21 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Honoring the great American civil rights leader. 25 Burns Night Celebrates the great Scottish poet Robert Burns, who gave us the song Auld Lang Syne that we . sang at the start of the month. CONVIVIO bookworks follow the book of days blog at conviviobookworks.com Our Christmas Cactus came into bloom just a few days ago with impeccable timing. Read more about all these days, and find recipes, too, at the Convivio Book of Days Blog. Convivio Book of Days January ���9 © Convivio Bookworks.

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