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St. Martin and the Beggar by El Greco
On the evening of Monday, November 12, Lucia's class will take part in her school's annual Lantern Walk. The children and their parents will gather outside to walk through the woods holding homemade lanterns and singing songs. Afterward, we'll gather around a bonfire, drink warm cider, and listen to a story. The Lantern Walk coincides with the feast of St.
Oh! I just remembered this one. My daughter learned it when we were stationed in Germany and she was part of a German immersion first-grade class. It's beautiful when they march and sing with the lanterns.
I would love to hear this sung. My dad's birthday is the 12th and he has studied German so I am going to remind him of this.
Geese: honk honk honk HONK!
People: "Thanks to these geese, we were able to find the noble Martin and make him our bishop! Let us celebrate by... eating the geese!"
Geese: Honk honk?!?!
I can tell you now, "Labimmel, Labammel, Laboom" is awfully hard to erase from the loop playing in your head. The Kindergarteners also erupt with that part of the song at the oddest times.
Sara, Cloudscome, Phil and Melangell: Thank you so much for commenting today.
Thanks for sharing this story. Now I'll have to see if my husband knows about St. Martin. I like to test him on all his saints knowledge...
The Lantern Walk sounds like fun. Thanks for sharing this one!
I'd love to hear the tune, too. It's lovely.
It's traditional in England to eat goose on Michaelmas (Jane Austen research comes up with interesting stuff) - if you eat goose on that day, it means you'll have a profitable year.
I'll bet somewhere here in Scotland there's a Lantern Walk. Although this city is aggressively Protestant, it's a light festival, and here in the dark, that's the thing to do. Bonfires and cider sound like a plan. It's interesting how it segues with Veteran's Day, a story about a soldier.
Kelly: I just scanned the music for this song! I hope it's of use to people. I would be happy eating goose on Michaelmas, Martinmas, Christmas-- as long as someone else is baking it.
TadMack: That is an astute observation about Martinmas and Veteran's Day. I can only imagine how lovely a lantern festival would be in Scotland, especially if one used turnip lanterns. I want to make a turnip lantern.
But what about the geese?
Phil: If you cook a goose, I will eat it.
I love all of these traditions...the Spanish have a tradition of Posadas (?) which seems really neat to do...
In my dutch/german/polih family we only did St Nick and Christmas. But other families we know celebrate St Lucy's (with a girl of the family dressed in a gown with a crown of candles) serving cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate), King's Day for the Epiphany with a lot of neat things for that...plus some other traditions.
This is a first for hearing about St Martin.