One of the things that I really loved that we did this year was celebrating Martinmas. St. Martin of Tours died November 11th, 397 A.D. He was a Roman soldier in his youth, and later became a bishop in Gaul. He was one of the first canonized saints to live a life as a Christian without facing persecution for it. (Though he did defend against heresies.) His feast day was celebrated at a time when the butchering and harvest were finished, and right before the men would go into the woods and cut wood and hunt. People would celebrate by eating a roast goose and tasting the first wine from…