[Sca-cooks] January 2nd Holiday Exchange

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JAN 2
St. Abel's Feast Day - First death in the world

Advent of Isis - Ancient Rome and Egypt - Egyptian Mother Goddess

Second Day of the New Year - Japan - Beginning of Work Day

Feast of the Holy Name - If there is a Sunday between January 1st - January
6th,  this is it.

Feast of St. Macarius of Alexandria(the Younger) (395?AD) - Patron Saint of
Pastry Cooks and Confectioners. Macaroons are named for him, as well as
sugarplums. A confectioner by trade, he spent 60 years in the desert in
penitential basket making.

Feast of St. Adelard - Patron Saint of Gardeners. Cousin of Charlemagne, he
took up gardening in exile.

Kakizome - Japan - The "First Writing" of the year, strips of calligraphed
poems or proverbs are hung the house

Isaac Asimov (b. 1920) American author