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British Popular Customs, Present and Past

Nov. 24.] ST. CATHERINE’S EVE.

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Nov. 24.]

ST. CATHERINE’S EVE.

In Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials (1822, vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 507) is the following notice of this festival:

“The 24th (1556) being St. Katharine’s Day (or rather Eve), at six of the clock at night St. Katharine went about the battlements of St. Paul’s Church accompanied with fine singing and great lights; this was St. Katharine’s procession.”

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