New Moon's St Marcus Day - Is It Real?

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New Moon author Stephanie Meyer borrowed fictional day in St. Marcus is a real European celebration of St. Mark's day. It has changed the dates: the 25th day of Markov April. Since the date coincides with the ceremonies of Easter (moveable feast, and dates vary, but usually occurs in March or April), and a host of other Eurasian spring festival, he thought it was Mark's day version of Christianity is much older, Pagan rites. In the book Ostara, Edain McCoy writes: "As was done with a lot of Pagan festivals in Europe, the early church attempted to divert the symbolism Ostara [Spring Festival of the Germanic pagans] nablagdan St. Mark's. Instead of festival of rebirth, St. Mark's paintings concentrated on the death and martyrdom, by which Christian birth achieved ."

St. Mark is traditionally considered the author of the Gospel of Matthew in the Christian Bible. He believes that the companion of St. Paul, the great early Christian evangelist, that the Book of Acts refers to as "John Mark." Disciple of Paul, Mark thought he was used as the basis of Paul's preaching of the Gospel. He is also remembered as the founder of the Coptic Church. Coptic tradition holds that Mark appears in the Gospels as a young man who was carrying water to the house where the Last Supper and Jesus and his apostles, as a young man who ran away naked when Jesus was arrested, and to pour the water Jesus turned into wine at the wedding feast at Cana.

Mark said he was martyred 25th April, 68 in Alexandria, Egiptu.Skupina local people resented his trying to deter them from their traditional gods. They placed a rope around his neck and dragged him through the streets until he was dead. Its main sanctuary in Egypt and Italy. His Italian shrine of the Basilica de San Marco in Venice, which is traditionally said to be the place where Mark's remains were buried. So, he really has nothing to do with Italy, although not specifically for the city of Volterra.

Perhaps because of his martyrdom, many curious traditions grew up over the centuries about the celebration of the Feast of St. Mark. In the seventeenth through the nineteenth century England, especially in the north and west, folklore has held that the ghosts of those who will die next year, made ​​a procession, with the aim of which will die through a cemetery and a church at midnight on St. Mark's Eve. Some said the parade will be the coffins, or without heads or rotting corpses. Another is the procession will be identified, the spirit is like ghosts, and that would be able to sit and watch the parade, as he went, and so know who was going to die.

to see the ghosts, folklore claims, one had to be post. Another legend held that one must be present at the cemetery at St. Mark's Eve three years in a row, and only in the third year would see a specter. Sometimes, you live to viewers saw their ghosts, and died shortly thereafter. Another superstition regarding St. Mark's Eve is that on this night, a witch who has sold his soul to the devil (or written their names in the book of the devil), and want to keep their otherworldly powers had to walk three times around the church back, peek through the keyhole, and recite certain words and their powers would be lost.

Another traditional Markov Eva activity was mixing ashes of the hearth. If the ashes formed part of the shoe, someone who has lived in the household will die during the year.

St. Mark's Eve was one of the three nights was associated with mrtvima.Drugi the St. John's Eve and All Saints Eve. According to some legends, the three nights of those who have died can come back to earth as ghosts. This conviction of all the Saints Eve (Halloween) is a Christian appropriation of the Celtic harvest festival Samhain, the point when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest, and midway between the autumn and winter. Similarly, Mark's Eve marks the half way between the spring and summer, and is associated with the pagan festival of Ostara. St. John's Eve, traditionally celebrated on the 23rd June, associated with the pagan holiday of Midsummer or summer solstice.

Not all the legends associated with the Eva brand associated with death, ipak.Noć is a young woman will try to divine where their future is going to be friends. There were several ways to accomplish this: by choosing twelve sage leaves at midnight, walking nine times around the haystack, as saying: "Here's crust, now where's the knife?" or baking dumb-cake, eat a piece of cake, then walking back to bed without a word (hence the word "stupid"). If a woman is not any of these things, but especially if she prayed to St. Mark's, while working, she would see a shadow, or catch a fleeting insight into a man one day marry. However, if you went to bed without seeing the shadow of the newly dug grave thought that meant he would die unmarried.

These are mostly English usage, though. In Italy, if the Markov Day is celebrated at all, it's a celebration, drinks, and / or offer less bread sreće.Običaj wearing red and the procession seems to have been invented by Stephanie Meyer.