St. Martin's Lantern Toddle
A horse on High Street...
For the 6th year in succession the Rocking Horse Nursery has organised a lantern parade. This is part of European-wide celebrations for St. Martin, a former Roman soldier turned monk. He is most remembered for cutting his military coat to share with a beggar at the city gates of Amiens.
To celebrate this act of generosity, children of the University's nursery carried their self-made candle lit lanterns following the horse-backed "saint" through the streets of Old Aberdeen. Music lecturer Dr. Frauke Jurgensen, magnificently clad in a Roman soldier's outfit, and her pony Benji have once more led a crowd of ca. 100 adults and children to King's Chapel, where the sharinging of the coat was re-enacted with "beggar" Annamaija Rist. The group gathered afterwards in King's Chapel for stories with Rev. Easter Smart and music by Dr. Gisela Helfer and Valerie Wagner.
This year the procession was held on Fri 9th already and started with mulled wine and biscuits at the Rocking Horse Nursery gardens.
Author: GW
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