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1-го августа празднуется "день урожая" Ламмас(Lammas)и St. Peter ad Vincula -день Св.Петра в веригах.
Ламмас(или Лугнасад) - Британский праздник.
День поклонения пречистым веригам апостола Петра общеевропейский церковный праздник.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas
Про Ламмас в средневековых источниках.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=byte&byte=94118505&egdisplay=open&egs=94124821
Вери́ги свято́го Петра́ (греч. Αλυσίδες του Αγίου Πέτρου, итал. Vincula di San Pietro) — христианская реликвия, цепи (вериги), которыми, по преданию, был скован апостол Пётр во время своих арестов.
May
At Phillip and Jacob, away with the lambs;
That thinkest to any milk of their dams;
At Lammas* leave milking, for fear of a thing,
Lest (requiem seternam) in winter they sing.
To milk and to fold them, is much to require,
Except ye have pasture to fill their desire;
Yet many by milking (such heed do they take)
Not hurting their bodies, much profit do make.
Five ewes allow to every cow, make a proof by a score,
Shall double thy dairym or trust me no more:
Yet may a good huswife that knoweth the skill,
Have mixt or unmixt, at her pleasure and will.
...
Be sure thy neat have water and meat;
From bull, cow fast, till Crouchmas be past;
From hiefer bull bid thee till Lammas bid thee,
Leave cropping from May to Michaelmas-day**.
Thy brake go and sow where barley did grow;
The next crop wheat is husbandry neat.
Fine basil sow in a pot to grow;
Watch bees in May for swarming away.
Source: Thomas Tusser, Five hundreth pointes of good husbandrie, 1586.
*The festival of Lammas (August 1st) marks the end of summer and the beginning of fall.
** The festival of Michaelmas, Christian feast of St. Michael the Archangel (September 29). Its proper name is the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels. During the Middle Ages, Michaelmas was a great religious feast which coincided with the harvest in much of western Europe.
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