Today is Saint Mark (Sant Marc), who is the patron saint of the shoemakers and other jobs that work with leather. On this day, it used to be typical to make these currutacos biscuits in the shape of outer socks (escarpins) and take them to be blessed.

An outer sock (escarpí) was the thick sock that was worn between the stockings and the shoes with certain kinds of shoes.

St Crispin’s Day

Battle of Agincourt (detail) by Graham Turner. Source: Studio 88

Today is St Crispin’s Day. Crispin was a Gaulish Christian martyred in the third century. He was also patron saint of shoe makers. The cobblers celebrated their favourite martyr by spending most of his feast day getting drunk. Apparently:-

The twenty fifth of October,

Cursed be the cobbler who goes to bed sober.

Also:-

Now shoemakers will have a Frisken,

All in honour of St Crispin.

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I'm Jul⇡na ♡ I'm an artist and I'm 26 years old! I upload my current and past artworks and I reblog a lot of stuff because I love collecting images of pretty things :D

I draw a lot of Monster High, Renfield (2023), the band Ghost, and Dante's Divine Comedy fanart *✧･ﾟ

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Wilbur and Killian - an inexperienced animator and a defective necromancer decide that 1924 is the year to start their own animation studio, and turn misery into happiness through the limitless medium of animation and re-animation! (that's a whole side blog dedicated to them!)

Jamie and Theo - my mystery-solving, vampire-hunting student duo that I use to indulge the 1960s spooky cartoonish side of my brain

The Harlequin and Death - self explanatory; also my favorite way to personify the inherent romanticism of silliness and morbidity

Darius and Philip - my cottagecore enemies-to-besties shoemakers who pine a lot.

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