S’more Christmas: The Fourth Day of Awesome!
I’m back! And we are talking about fourth day of the 12 days of Christmas! This my Christmastide era! Twelve months of the year = twelve blogs = twelve days of Christmas.
You see, most of us in America are totally missing out on the true joy of the holiday season that lasts far past Advent and Christmas Day. It continues all the way to Twelfth Night, aka Epiphany, aka Kings Day.
Now, I did have a customer tell me that they missed Diva Spring Fling because I didn’t do an email reminding everyone that it was coming. So, remember to check out our upcoming events page to see all the upcoming events. FYI: the Hill Country Art & Wine Festival and Bubbly Day are just around the corner!
So, today we are delving into the history, the traditions, and the meaning of The Fourth Day of Christmas, and it has nothing to do with birds sitting on telephone lines.
When is the fourth day of Christmas?
If you read our first post, you know that it could be two days. Either December 28 or December 29. That is entirely up to you. If you want to know why or why that matters, you can read our First Day of Awesomeness blog.
We are calling December 29 the Third Day of Awesomeness – uh, I mean Christmas! And December 29 is known as St. Thomas Becket. It’s a busy day, though, so some other saints celebrated on December 29th are Blessed William Howard, St. Ebrulf of Ouche, and King David! I, also, saw something saying it is The Feast Day of the Holy Family of Nazareth (in other words Joseph, Mary, and Jesus), and I got really excited! But that was a post from 2025, and the date moves every year. So, if you want to look into that holiday, it will be on December 27, 2026. Whew! So many holidays!
What are we celebrating?
So, when I tried researching this holiday, I realized two things. 1.) St. Thomas a Becket has a lot of history that doesn’t involve celebrating the holiday. And 2.) The problem with celebrating saints is that they all got martyred. It’s kind of depressing.
Saint Thomas of Becket was from merry, old England and lived during the 1100s. He isn’t always viewed as being very saintly because he was friends with King Henry II, who appointed him as Archbishop of Canterbury. For a long time, Becket used his power in the church to do political things, making the king of England more wealthy and powerful.
Then, sometime after he became archbishop, Thomas Becket became much more serious about following God and supporting the Pope. After a bunch of arguments with King Henry, the king said, in anger, ‘Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?’ Three knights took him at his word, so Becket was murdered in the Cathedral in Canterbury!
Well, lots of people got upset that Becket was killed. So, the Catholic Church declared him a saint within just a few years. (That’s really fast!)
How to celebrate The Fourth Day of Christmas
So, I don’t know if people just start getting tired of coming up with new traditions or people just aren’t really excited anymore about Saint Thomas of Becket, but there isn’t much for traditions for this holiday.
As usual, there are Catholic mass services on this day. In medieval England, the holiday was a big deal with processions and special ceremonies in London and Canterbury. In fact, there is a famous medieval story called The Canterbury Tales that tell of a pilgrimage to the church where Thomas Becket was killed.
There are no real set traditions anymore for this holiday. However, because Thomas Becket was killed in a church during vespers (a time of prayer when monks sang and chanted), it would make sense to sing Christmas carols in celebration.
It might be fun to do a whole medieval themed evening, too!
How would you like to celebrate?
See you at my next blog where we will discover the history and traditions of the fifth day of Christmas and “Celebrate Always.” (I Thessalonians 5:16)
Merry Christmas,
S’more
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