Tomorrow is St. John's Day (Sant Joan is Catalan for St. John) and this afternoon they started setting off firecrackers. They've been going off for an hour. Not sure when they will stop, but I'll be lucky if I can get my dog to go outside tonight.
The holiday is in honor of John the Baptist. The book of Luke says that John the Baptist was born six months before Jesus so they celebrate his birth six months before Christmas. It's the first holiday of the summer and they use it welcome in the new season. If you want to read more about it, you can go here. Our town is too small to have any parades or a bonfire, but I'm sure the firecrackers will continue through the night.
I decided to go grocery shopping today and you could certainly tell that tomorrow is a holiday. Perhaps that, and the fact that the truck strike is over and the shelves are full again, brought lots of folks out to shop.
1 comment:
yay for the end of the truck strike!
And I find it fascinating that the birth of John the Baptist could set off the summer holidays. Cool!
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