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    This document summarizes the traditions and customs associated with St. Martin's Day, celebrated on November 11th. It discusses how St. Martin was a Roman soldier who cut his cloak in half to share with a beggar. On St. Martin's Day, people in many Italian countries celebrate by opening new wine barrels and enjoying good food like barbecued meats, chestnuts, and biscuits. Specific traditions mentioned include tasting new wine produced from the last harvest and preparing typical desserts like St. Martin's Pittas biscuits and stuffed crispelle pastries.

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    This document summarizes the traditions and customs associated with St. Martin's Day, celebrated on November 11th. It discusses how St. Martin was a Roman soldier who cut his cloak in half to share with a beggar. On St. Martin's Day, people in many Italian countries celebrate by opening new wine barrels and enjoying good food like barbecued meats, chestnuts, and biscuits. Specific traditions mentioned include tasting new wine produced from the last harvest and preparing typical desserts like St. Martin's Pittas biscuits and stuffed crispelle pastries.

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    This document summarizes the traditions and customs associated with St. Martin's Day, celebrated on November 11th. It discusses how St. Martin was a Roman soldier who cut his cloak in half to share with a beggar. On St. Martin's Day, people in many Italian countries celebrate by opening new wine barrels and enjoying good food like barbecued meats, chestnuts, and biscuits. Specific traditions mentioned include tasting new wine produced from the last harvest and preparing typical desserts like St. Martin's Pittas biscuits and stuffed crispelle pastries.

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    This document summarizes the traditions and customs associated with St. Martin's Day, celebrated on November 11th. It discusses how St. Martin was a Roman soldier who cut his cloak in half to share with a beggar. On St. Martin's Day, people in many Italian countries celebrate by opening new wine barrels and enjoying good food like barbecued meats, chestnuts, and biscuits. Specific traditions mentioned include tasting new wine produced from the last harvest and preparing typical desserts like St. Martin's Pittas biscuits and stuffed crispelle pastries.

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    IIS «Familiari»

    Liceo Classico
    Class 3rd A
    Alunne:
    Anghelone Giada
    Chilà Francesca
    Costarella Sabrina
    De Gaetano Ilenia
    Iaria Francesca

    St. Martin’s day


    The Feast of St. Martin:
    stories and customs
    of a very special day!

    Saint Martin's day, also known as the


    Feast of Saint Martin, is the feast day
    of Saint Martin of Tours and is
    celebrated on November 11 each
    year.
    Saint Martin of Tours was a Roman
    soldier who was baptised as an adult
    and became a monk. The most
    famous legend concerning him was
    that he had once cut his cloak in half
    to share with a beggar during a
    snowstorm, to save the latter from
    the cold. That night, he dreamt of
    Jesus, wearing the half-cloak and
    saying to the angels, "Here is Martin,
    the Roman soldier who is now
    baptised; he has clothed me.".
    On November 11th, in many Italian countries, the The
    Feast of St. Martin, or St. Martin’s Summer, is
    celebrated. It is an important event that unites the
    Christian liturgy with the rural tradition linked to the
    opening of the new wine barrels and the pleasures of
    good food. Let's find out together!
    The Feast of St. Martin is an occasion, as well as to glorify
    the saint, to celebrate the fruits of the earth and the
    abandonment of good food. In fact, in addition to filling
    the glasses, in St. Martin the bellies are filled too, especially
    in a country such as Italy with a varied culinary tradition.

    Barbecued meat and roast chestnuts, pittuettes and wine,


    the typical biscuits: all of Italy is at the table for Saint
    Martin and among the many traditional dishes, the goose
    is one of the most popular one.
    St. Martin's Day is the day when, especially in
    Calabria, it’s time to taste the new wine that it's
    produced by the last harvest. In the past, this
    day was the festivity when our grandparents, in
    the winery of their friends, tasted the new wine
    and celebrated the end of the phase of the
    must. For St. Martin's dinner, women, in the
    houses, prepare typical and delicious food, to
    accompany the new wine.
    During the dinner people used to eat
    homemade bread, usually hot, crushed
    olives, products saved in oil, cured meats
    and other appetizers to accompany the
    wine.
    In Calabria, for St. Martin's Day, people prepare a
    typical dessert, the St. Martin's Pittas. They are biscuits
    with toasted almonds, dried fruit, raisins and dried figs.
    People often prepare the “crispelle”, usually stuffed
    with salted anchovies, dried tomatoes or covered by
    sugar and, for child, usually stuffed with chocolate
    cream!

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