Wladyslaw Los wrote:

> In article <f08csd$8pk$2@nemesis.news.tpi.pl>,
> Jerzy Nowak <0...@m...pl> wrote:
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>
>>Wladyslaw Los napisał(a):
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>>>[...] Ponadto to niemiecki zwyczaj.
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>>Władysławie, z czego to wnosisz?
>>pozdr. Jerzy
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> Trochę zwątpiłem, bo nie mogę odszukać źródła, ale jestem przekonany, że
> czytałem kiedyś o obyczaju w jakimś nienieckim regionie, wypiekania
> rogali w dniu 11. listopada, tyle, że dzień ten obchodzi się tam jako
> święto Marcina Lutra. Ale może mi się coś pomyliło.
>
> Władysław

Moze nie ten Marcin? albo nie ten kosciol?


Martinstag (11. November)
Martinstag or Martini commemorates Sankt Martin (c. 317-397), Bishop of
Tours, one of the most revered European saints. The best-known legend
connected with Saint Martin is the dividing of the cloak (die
Mantelteilung), when Martin, then a soldier in the Roman army, tore his
cloak in two to share it with a freezing beggar at Amiens.

In the past, Martinstag was celebrated as the end of the harvest season
(thanksgiving). For workers and the poor it was a time when they had a
chance to enjoy some of the bounty and get a few crumbs from the nobles'
table ("einige Krümel vom reichgedeckten Tisch"). Today in many parts of
Europe the feast is still celebrated by processions of children with
candle-lit lanterns (Martinslaternen - see the German children's song
"Ich geh mit meiner Laterne") and a banquet of roast goose (die
Martinsgans). In former times, Martini was the "official" start of
winter and the 40-day Christmas fast. Today Martinstag is the unofficial
start of the Christmas shopping season in German Europe.