Christian Customs

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The Return of Plum Pudding Clay Lane

The Puritans said it was unfit for God-fearing men, but George I thought it fit for a King.

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How the Pepyses Kept Twelfth Day Samuel Pepys

In the family of Samuel Pepys, the Feast of the Epiphany was kept with music, cake and quaint traditions.

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By the circle of Andrey Rublev (1408), via the Russian State Museum in St Petersburg and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Candlemas Clay Lane

A February celebration for which the faithful have brought candles to church since Anglo-Saxon times.

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Michaelmas

A celebration of St Michael, captain of heaven’s angel host, courteous warrior, and healer.

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Mothering Sunday Clay Lane

Mothering Sunday is a peculiarly British celebration of Christian faith, close family and responsible freedom.

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Aaron’s Rod Elfric of Eynsham

The Victorian practice of hanging sugared nuts on a Christmas tree was bursting with Biblical symbolism.

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The Sunday of Palms and Willows Clay Lane

For centuries, northern countries from Russia to England have laid the catkins of the willow tree before Jesus as he enters Jerusalem.

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