St. Martin's Day (or Martinstag or Martinmas) is November 11, the feast day of Martin of Tours, who started out as a Roman soldier. He was baptized as an adult and became a monk. It is understood that he was a kind man who led a quiet and simple life. The most famous legend of his life is that he once cut his cloak in half to share with a beggar during a snowstorm, to save the beggar from dying of the cold. That night he dreamed that Jesus was wearing the half-cloak Martin had given away. Martin heard Jesus say to the angels: "Here is Martin, the Roman soldier who is not baptised; he has clothed me."
So at St. Jean's Ronnie's class reinacted this story for the preschoolers after they did the lantern gig.
Davina with her lamp and her classmates;
The actual march through the dark was beyond my camera's capacities.
Then it was time for the play. Talia is just hanging out.
The crowd is ready for the show;
Ronnie is actually talking in German but the microphone didn't work too well.
The microphone was working better for the Big Climatic Moment when the coat gets cut. I thought that they were being politically correct having a black girl playing St. Martin and it turns out she won a lottery...
Taking a bow at the end. Check out the soldier who loses his armour. Hear Davina screaming "Mommeeeeee!"
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