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Follow on Google News | Annual Boar's Head Festival Returns to Bethesda-By-The-Sea, January 5, 2014By: linda@lindalanemarketing.com An epiphany is a revelation and a climax of the Advent/Christmas Season. The Twelve Days of Christmas (http://www.crivoice.org/ WHAT: Bethesda-by- WHERE: The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by- WHEN: Sunday, January 5th, 2:30 PM and again at 4:30 PM TICKETS: Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. A suggested donation of $15 will be collected at the door INFO: www.bbts.org or by calling 561-655-4554 The History of the Boar’s Head Festival: An ancient legend serves as the basis for this Festival: an Oxford University student, while strolling in the forest reading the works of Aristotle, was charged by a wild and raging boar. The student, quick thinking, thrust his volume of Aristotle into the throat of the boar, putting an end to this deadly threat. After the telling of this tale, the head of the boar was borne into a feast at Oxford. The celebration for the student's life came to represent the overcoming of brute force with reason. When the Church adapted the Festival, it gained a new, profoundly Christian significance: The Festival we know today originated at Queen's College, Oxford, England in 1340. By 1607 an expansive ceremony was in use at St. John's College, Cambridge, England. The boar's head was decorated with flags and greenery sprigs to be carried in state to the strains of the Boar's Head carol. The Festival included lords, ladies, knights, historical characters, cooks, hunters, pages, Yule log, plum pudding and mince pie. Eventually, Good King Wenceslas, shepherds and wise men were added to tell the Nativity story. Persecuted French Huguenot Protestants who had learned this custom while exiled in England brought this ceremony to colonial America near Troy, New York. In 1888 a descendent established this ceremony at the Hoosac Episcopal School. Here Rev. Burroughs first saw it. He brought it to Cincinnati in 1939 and gave it a church setting. From a light and mellow celebration, it has evolved to a profoundly moving experience, for participants and spectators alike. End
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