British Popular Customs, Present and Past / Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People. Arranged According to the Calendar of the Year.

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

Ibid. 3rd. S. vol. iv. p. 492; See Oliver’s History of Collegiate Church of Wolverhampton, 1836, p. 16.

WALES.

At Tenby, on St. Clement’s Day, it was customary for the owners of fishing-boats to give a supper of roast goose and rice pudding to their crews.—Mason’s Tales and Traditions of Tenby, 1858, p. 27.

Nov. 24.] ST. CATHERINE’S EVE.

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.”