Domp80 Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 Children in the playground this morning were handing each other cards wishing a bonne fete de St Catherine. Why do they do this in particular for St Catherine and do they celebrate in any other way ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0DRLddMMyyyy0Falseen-USTrue Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 I also noticed in the local vetimarche they were selling straw hats for St. Catherines day. Is this the same Catherine as the wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRT17 Posted November 25, 2005 Share Posted November 25, 2005 Molly, I think this Catherine was a martyr and she was burnt hence the connection with the Catherine Wheel. Maybe someone else can tell us the whole story.Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOMY Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 Sainte Catherine : If you are a girl, if you are 26 years old, and still not married, you have to wear a funny hat !These girls are called : les Catherinettes ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOMY Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 Sainte Catherine : If you are a girl, if you are 26 years old, and still not married, you have to wear a funny hat !These girls are called : les Catherinettes ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOMY Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 Sainte Catherine : If you are a girl, if you are 26 years old, and still not married, you have to wear a funny hat !These girls are called : les Catherinettes ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOMY Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 Sainte Catherine : If you are a girl, if you are 26 years old, and still not married, you have to wear a funny hat !These girls are called : les Catherinettes ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOMY Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 Sainte Catherine : If you are a girl, if you are 26 years old, and still not married, you have to wear a funny hat !These girls are called : les Catherinettes ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRT17 Posted November 26, 2005 Share Posted November 26, 2005 Merci Domy Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissie Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 I think the original Saint Catherine story was that she was a religious girl who was married against her wishes and refused to sleep with her husband or give up her religion. As a result, she was tied onto a huge wheel with spikes on it and rolled down a hill - hence the St Catherine's wheel. Grim stuff, huh?..............Make a good storyline for something like Emmerdale or Eastenders though......Chrissie (81) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissie Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 And I forgot to add, having seen Domy's posting, that in Denmark if you are an unmarried female on your 30th birthday everyone gives you pepperpots! Have no idea why, but it's expensive going round buying up the salts to match....(That's my educational/cultural posting for this month done!)Chrissie (81) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRT17 Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 [quote]I think the original Saint Catherine story was that she was a religious girl who was married against her wishes and refused to sleep with her husband or give up her religion. As a result, she was tie...[/quote]Chrissie, thanks for giving us the rest of the story.Re. the Danish custom, I think the Swedes have a similar one but not with pepper pots.Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted November 27, 2005 Share Posted November 27, 2005 So why do school kids celebrate it while most Saints days go un- noticed ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistral Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 So why do school kids celebrate it while most Saints days go un- noticed ? I think it's to do with the unmarried girls thing. Ste catherine's day used to be a major celebration for any young girl (until she hit 26-then she became an embarrassment) there used to be hat competitions and parades etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistral Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 So why do school kids celebrate it while most Saints days go un- noticed ? I think it's to do with the unmarried girls thing. Ste catherine's day used to be a major celebration for any young girl (until she hit 26-then she became an embarrassment) there used to be hat competitions and parades etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 Sainte Catherine : Patron saint for all virtuous young ladies whom by the age of 26 have not yet known what the opposite gender is about!! Girls, still not married and still virgins (really!) are given by their family and made to wear a bonnet/hat with lots of fanciful adornments in the vain hope that some bloke in the village or at the fair will find one of them attractive enough and marry her..... Now if you think it does no longer happens... Some 12/15 years ago, I have helped my sister at her tender age of 26 to wear such bonnet! ... She did find someone eventually.... but did not marry him, just lived with him happily ever after as they say... I never asked her if she did fully meet all of the criterion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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