[Sca-cooks] Ember Day

[Decker, Terry D.]

Anniversary in the sense it's a recurring day over time.  "Ymbe  (around)
ryne (run or running) daeg (day)."

Sepetember 14 is the Exhaltation of the Cross.  December 13 is St. Lucy's
Day (virgin martyr of Syracuse, Sicily, 303 AD).  Ember Day Saturdays were
commonly used for ordinations.

Bear


>      Actually (according to Webster's Ninth New Collegiate
> Dictionary), it'=
> s ME from OE ymbrendaeg, from ymbrene == circuit, anniversary
> + daeg == day=
> .  (I added the ==)  What anniversary they mean, I don't
> know.  I would ass=
> ume it would have to do with the liturgical year, meaning
> these were the an=
> nual observances of something. Lent and Whitsun I can see.
> What is Septemb=
> er 14?  A particular saint's day?  December 13 is too late to
> be the beginn=
> ing of Advent.
>
> Sandra Kisner
> sjk3 at cornell.edu
>