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What (who) is Lammas - definition

CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY

Lammas Day; Lammastide; Gule of August; Calan Awst; Lamastide; Lammas day; LAMMAS DAY

Lammas

['lam?s]

(also Lammas Day)

¦ noun the first day of August, formerly observed as harvest festival.

Origin

OE hlafm?sse (see loaf¹, Mass), later interpreted as if from lamb + Mass.

Lammas

·noun The first day of August;

- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide.

Lammas growth

Lammas shoot; Lammas shoots

Lammas growth, also called Lammas leaves, Lammas flush, second shoots, or summer shoots, is a season of renewed growth in some trees in temperate regions put on in July and August (if in the northern hemisphere, January and February if in the southern), that is around Lammas day, August 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas_growth

Wikipedia

Lammas

Lammas Day (Old English hlāfmæsse, "loaf-mass"), also known as Loaf Mass Day, is a Christian holiday celebrated in some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere on 1 August. The name originates from the word "loaf" in reference to bread and "Mass" in reference to the Eucharist. It is a festival in the liturgical calendar to mark the blessing of the First Fruits of harvest, with a loaf of bread being brought to the church for this purpose.

On Loaf Mass Day, it is customary to bring to a Christian church a loaf made from the new crop, which began to be harvested at Lammastide, which falls at the halfway point between the summer solstice and autumn September equinox. Christians also have church processions to bakeries, where those working therein are blessed by Christian clergy.

Lammas has coincided with the feast of St. Peter in Chains, commemorating St. Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison, but in the liturgical reform of 1969 the feast of St. Alphonsus Liguori was transferred to this day, the day of St. Alphonsus' death.

While Loaf Mass Day is traditionally a Christian holy day, Lughnasadh is celebrated by Neopagans around the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas

Examples of use of Lammas

1. It‘s heart–breaking.‘ Mr Lammas said: ‘Joy could be driven to suicide by these people.

2. Mrs Lammas said the CCTV had merely caught ‘shapes moving about‘. She said: ‘I love my garden.

3. It is thought the youngster, of Lammas Gardens, was involved in an altercation with another youth when he was fatally wounded, just a few hundred yards from his home.

4. I have to be constantly on my guard in case she ends up taking her own life.‘ Mrs Lammas, who has 16 grandchildren and four great–grandchildren, said there had been around 200 incidents over the past ten years.

5. I want to die because of all the constant aggravation.‘ Mrs Lammas, who has breathing difficulties and diabetes and uses a mobility scooter, moved into her three–bed semi with husband Eric, 65, in 1'67.