Pentecost market Mon June, 9-2025

The plan is, just like last year, to organise the market on Pentecost Monday. It will be a lovely market day, so don't miss it and put the date of Monday, June 9, 2025 in your calendar. So stop by, you are very welcome.

* In the early Middle Ages, cathedrals and great churches throughout Western Europe were fitted with a peculiar architectural feature known as a Holy Ghost hole: a small circular opening in the roof that symbolized the entrance of the Holy Spirit into the midst of the congregation. At Pentecost, these Holy Ghost holes would be decorated with flowers, and sometimes a dove figure lowered through into the church while the narrative of Pentecost was read. Holy Ghost holes can still be seen today in European churches such as Canterbury Cathedral. 

Pentecost was a very important Christian festival. It was then accompanied by a week of obligatory rest, known as the Holy Ghost Week, which was shortened in 813. Standard Pentecost rituals included besides releasing doves in the church, scattering peony petals, blowing the bugle and holding jousts.