#st. mark

[galleryofart]

In St. Mark's

Artist: Frederic Leighton (English, 1830–1896)

Date: Unknown Date

Medium: Oil on Canvas

[pagan-stitches]

The peasants considered St. Mark to be one of the lords of the weather, so on this day a procession was held into the countryside with the blessing of young grain (winter grain) and prayers for the harvest. People stopped not only at all the chapels, but also at every crossroads. It is possible that this tradition originated from the ancient Roman festival of Robigalia, the purpose of which was to drive away the spirit of mold that attacked the grain at this time.

Young engaged couples had to be careful not to announce their future marriage on the Sunday preceding the procession. This brought bad luck to their marriage, as did their wedding the week after that Sunday.

St. Mark is also mentioned as a protector against lightning and hail. The reasons for this are told in a legend from the early 1st century: During a service in Alexandria, at Easter, Mark was attacked by a crowd of pagans, who threw a rope around his neck and dragged him through the streets along bumpy roads until he died. The legend goes on to say that when he died, a hailstorm came and only thanks to it did the believers manage to carry away Mark's body and bury it with dignity.

In Moravia they used to say:

"On St. Mark's Day, sow cucumbers in the spring." But this only applies to drier and warmer areas. Elsewhere, it is certainly worth waiting until May and sowing after the frosts, i.e. in the second half of the month. Another wise proverb refers to May 19th: "On Peter Celestine, cucumbers can already be planted outside."

Most of the mentioned pranostics concern the harvest and its sowing. However, some pranostics still concern the possible winter. This is most often manifested by occasional snow or mixed showers in higher altitudes, rain in the lowlands and often the occurrence of frost: "If George warms, then Mark burns. After the pleasant George comes Mark, who often scares us with frost. There are still twelve frosts after Saint George. Saint Mark knocks off the heads of morels (spring mushrooms). After the warm Mark, it often gets cold." The last pranostics says that if it rains on this day, it will rain for two more months: Saint Mark rainy - seven weeks muddy.

Other pranostics say:

Before the twenty-fifth, the croaking of a frog beckons unpleasant weather.

Plant potatoes on St. Mark's Day - there will be a hole full of them.

A row full of potatoes on St. Mark's Day.

Potatoes are to be planted on St. Mark's Day.

On St. Mark's Day, whoever has no bread should bite an apple.

On St. Mark's Day, the spring is green.

On St. Mark's Day, the winter is already great.

As much heat before St. Mark's Day, as much winter after it.

After the warm St. Mark's Day, it often gets cold.

In Zjnomo:

On St. Mark's Day (April 25), Czech and German villages also held prayer processions into the fields. However, the local Germans always took money with them. It was said that if they heard the cuckoo's call and shook the money they had prepared, their wealth would remain with them for the whole year.

[xpuigc-bloc]

Andrea Mantegna

St. Mark

1450

Style: Early Renaissance

Genre: religious painting

oil on canvas

[stastrodome]

Fun Facts. 100% verified.

"The greatest tragedies," Heidegger wrote, "are football games that end in a tie."

In many Victorian-era productions of Hamlet, the ghost of Old Hamlet would give a five minute speech about posture.

Kiwis were first marketed as "fuzz nuggets".

LeBron James sued an Ohio newspaper for referring to his family as "LeSpawn James".

Among clergy, The Gospel of Saint Mark is often called “The Wet Willie of Christ”.

[hopefulkidshark]

Venice Carnival, Italy: The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival held in Venice, Italy, famous throughout the world for its elaborate costumes and masks. The Carnival ends on Shrove Tuesday, which is the day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. According to legend, the Carnival of Venice began after the military victory of the Venetian Republic over the patriarch of Aquileia, Ulrich II, in the year 1162. In honour of this, the people started to dance and gather in St Mark's Square. It lasts for 10 days, usually starting at the end of January or beginning of February. Masks have always been an important feature of the Venetian Carnival. Wikipedia

[blues-pink-switchblade]

happy st. mark's eve!

[emry-stars-art]

Also it’s still St. Paddy’s where I am so the Irishman himself ☘️

[troutfur]

#OH THAT WOULD BE COOL AS SHIT#i was raised Christian (babtist) but I’m? entirely unfamiliar with the concept of like#the 4 evangelicalists#but just the idea of a monsterous creature#previously separate entities#merged into one being over grand amounts of time#while the lines between their original ideals and modern times become blurred#v cool#maybe INSPIRED by Christianity but from what i understand a separate concept overall#reboggle

@spotty-is-slumberous

Yes! You get it!

With very few exceptions I'm not a fan of Christian coding or Christian imagery in my religious feral cat fiction, but you know what would kick ass? The founders being merged into a single cherub-like entity (so winged and four heads: lion, eagle, bull, and human).

[spockeveryday]

[possible-streetwear]

[70ssmut4]

[rollingrockstar]

[rachthechaosbi]

is that all? that’s all there is

is that all? that’s all there is

is that all? that’s all there is

is that all? that’s all there is

[postcard-from-the-past]

St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, Veneto region of Italy

Italian vintage postcard

[vir7ues]

the most annoying person you know is about to start their annual re-reading of the raven cycle

[jonathanbyersphd]

brb going feral from the implications