Mid-Lent

On special occasions the cross was imprinted on the loaf before baking, as on the Christmas loaves in southern France and in Greece, the Kreuzstollen cross loaf in Germany, the cross bread of Mid-Lent among the Slavs.

Archive 2009-04-01 Eileen 2009

On special occasions the cross was imprinted on the loaf before baking, as on the Christmas loaves in southern France and in Greece, the Kreuzstollen cross loaf in Germany, the cross bread of Mid-Lent among the Slavs.

Hot Cross Buns - A History jenmack 2009

It is certain that at Constantinople a Sunday in Mid-Lent, the first of August, and the 14th of September were similarly privileged.

04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004

Later, when the observance was extended to forty days, this Sunday became Mid-Lent – again reason for a pause and relaxation.

03/01/2003 - 04/01/2003 John 2003

On Mid-Lent she did not return to Yonville, but in the evening went to a masked ball.

Madame Bovary 2003

Yes, the life of an oyster, of a turtle, of a clam! alone with a woman sad as Mid-Lent, who doesn't speak, doesn't sing, does nothing but weep, weep, weep!

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Lizzi will stay, for she is taking cooking lessons, since she is to be married in Mid-Lent.

A Young Girl's Diary 1923

These they took from house to house in pairs, stopping at every door where they expected to receive something, and singing a few lines in which they announced that it was Mid-Lent and that they were about to throw Death into the water.

Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit. § 3. Carrying out Death 1922

Ceremonies of the same sort are observed at Mid-Lent in Silesia.

Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit. § 3. Carrying out Death 1922

The Frankish custom is thus described by a writer of the sixteenth century: “At Mid-Lent, the season when the church bids us rejoice, the young people of my native country make a straw image of Death, and fastening it to a pole carry it with shouts to the neighbouring villages.

Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit. § 3. Carrying out Death 1922