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MARCH
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"The Month after Fasting"
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Aries
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"The Month before Spring" | (Mar.21-Apr.20) |
4 Kasimir. The day to chase away or kill rats.
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12 Gregorius
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12 Gregorius. While Balázs is the patron of students, Gregorius is that of schools. This was the day for the celebrations of Gregorius: students visited every house in the villages and asked for donations for the school and for the teacher(s).
If Gregorius shakes his beard, it will snow.
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18 Alexander
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18 Alexander. "Alexander, Joseph and Benedict, brings good weather in their sacks." This is the day which is supposed to bring real warm weather.
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19 Joseph
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19 Joseph. In several regions of Hungary, this is the first time cattles can go out to the fields.
Potato, garlic and anethum is planted.
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21 Benedict
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21 Benedict. The first day of spring, the time of the spring equinoxe.
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24 Gabriel
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24 Gabriel. Time to plant cabbages.
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25 Annunciation Day
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25 Annunciation Day. Time to plant seedlings, and to clean trees. It is time to engraft grafts collected on the day Scholastics. The good weather brings swallows and other migrating birds home.
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