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The harvest fields have begun to ripen, and the corn will soon be ready for the sickle; of this fact our forefathers were reminded by the Lammas Festival, which was celebrated on the first of this month. Lammas is a shortened form of the word Loaf-mass, or feast of the loaf.
He asked them to keep a festival of flocks on Saint Agnes' Day. He asked them to keep a festival of herds on Saint Luke's Day. He asked them to keep the feasts of Loaf-Mass in August and Wood-Mass in September as feasts of Harvest and Forestry. He asked them to keep a thanksgiving for summer after Christmas on the night of Saint John, if they and their priest thought good.
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