{"id":5636,"date":"2023-09-29T07:57:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T07:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2023-09-29T07:57:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T07:57:07","slug":"michaelmas-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/michaelmas-day-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Michaelmas Day 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, September 29th is Michaelmas Day, holy day of St. Michael the Archangel and traditionally a harvest festival of great celebration. The monks of Holycross Abbey honoured St. Michael in a special way. From medieval times, Michaelmas Day was observed as a very special feast day in the monastic parish and is still observed as the parish patron day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictures below show Mass being celebrated for Michaelmas Day in Holycross Abbey in 1972 and a Michaelmas Day Procession from 1973 with C. Cahill &amp; P. Tomkins carrying the banner. Also shown is a newspaper clipping describing Michaelmas Day in 1914 in Holycross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Mass-in-Abbey-Michaelmas-1972.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5636]\" title=\"Michaelmas Day 2023\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Mass-in-Abbey-Michaelmas-1972-651x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5637\" width=\"435\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Mass-in-Abbey-Michaelmas-1972-651x1024.jpg 651w, http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Mass-in-Abbey-Michaelmas-1972-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Mass-in-Abbey-Michaelmas-1972.jpg 687w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Michelmas-procession-1973-C-Cahill-and-P-Tomkins-with-Banner.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5636]\" title=\"Michaelmas Day 2023\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Michelmas-procession-1973-C-Cahill-and-P-Tomkins-with-Banner-1024x672.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5638\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Michelmas-procession-1973-C-Cahill-and-P-Tomkins-with-Banner-1024x672.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Michelmas-procession-1973-C-Cahill-and-P-Tomkins-with-Banner-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Michelmas-procession-1973-C-Cahill-and-P-Tomkins-with-Banner-768x504.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Michelmas-procession-1973-C-Cahill-and-P-Tomkins-with-Banner.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Michaelmas-Newspaper-1914.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5636]\" title=\"Michaelmas Day 2023\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"312\" height=\"883\" src=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Michaelmas-Newspaper-1914.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5639\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Michaelmas-Newspaper-1914.jpg 312w, http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Michaelmas-Newspaper-1914-106x300.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, September 29th is Michaelmas Day, holy day of St. Michael the Archangel and traditionally a harvest festival of great celebration. The monks of Holycross Abbey honoured St. Michael in a special way. From medieval times, Michaelmas Day was observed&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.holycrossballycahill.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}