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Tequila & Sparklers. On Christmas Eve, after eight days of posadas, Mexico has its biggest feast of the year. Like the posada, this follows tradition. There is the Christmas salad-oranges, peanuts, lemons, beets, apples, almonds, and anything else at hand-which the father of the family always makes. Tequila is on the table, and in more prosperous homes wine and sometimes champagne. There are sparklers, like the ones in the U.S. on the Fourth of July. Not even the children go to bed, for in Mexico on Christmas Eve nobody sleeps...
...order known as the Cistercians of the Strict Observance is one of the most austere in the Roman Catholic Church. On ordinary days rising hour is 2 a.m. (it is earlier on Sundays and feast days). Seven hours are devoted to sleep, about seven to the Divine Office and Mass, one hour to meals, four hours to study and private prayers, usually five hours to manual labor. Except when sick, Trappists* eat no meat, fish, eggs; unless they are giving necessary directions for labor, monks without special assignment may not speak, except to their superior...
King Michael of Rumania turned 26, quietly and privately at his hunting lodge, set himself for the loud and public whoop-de-do next week on his "name day," the Feast of Michael the Archangel...
...Fiumicino story came to my knowledge quite by chance. It was the Aug. 15 Feast of Assumption of Our Lady -an occasion when Rome literally empties itself. A friend, a glass cutter who has a studio near by, and who, like me, owns a motorcycle, proposed that as the roads were empty it would be a good day for a race. We settled on Fiumicino, 18 miles away...
...clock was finally in place on Aug. 15, the Feast of the Assumption. The inauguration was divided into two parts: a civil ceremony on land, and a religious one at sea. At the first, Rocchi was to unveil the clock, which was wrapped in sackcloth. At the second, the statue of the Virgin Mary would be taken out to sea in a fishing vessel and Father Bernardoni would throw a wreath upon the waves...