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Today

The sun

The moon

Twilight

Planetary hours

Two weeks ahead

The moon's sign is taken at noon, as the old almanacs gave it for planting by the signs.

The year

The next twelve months

About these days

The sky follows your place; the days do not. They are the days of the Pennsylvania German year, as kept in Pennsylvania, whoever is reading.

The movable feasts, from Fasnacht to Trinity Sunday, are reckoned each year from Easter by the Western (Gregorian) rule. Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas. The national holidays are the United States federal holidays.

Days before 1752 are given as their sources give them, many in the Old Style (Julian) calendar. John George Hohman, whose Der lange verborgene Freund was printed at Reading in 1820, has no day here: his birth and death are unrecorded.

The church year

• 6 January Epiphany Wikipedia, “The Calendar of the Church Year” (the Episcopal Church calendar of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer)
• 2 February Candlemas: the Presentation of Christ in the Temple Wikipedia, “The Calendar of the Church Year” (the Episcopal Church calendar of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer)
• 25 March The Annunciation Wikipedia, “The Calendar of the Church Year” (the Episcopal Church calendar of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer)
• 24 June St John's Day: the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist Wikipedia, “The Calendar of the Church Year” (the Episcopal Church calendar of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer)
• 1 August Lammas: the loaf-mass of the first harvest Arthur Rank Centre, “Lammas”
• 29 September Michaelmas: Saint Michael and All Angels Wikipedia, “The Calendar of the Church Year” (the Episcopal Church calendar of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer)
• 31 October Reformation Day: Luther's Ninety-five Theses, 1517 Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, church calendar
• 1 November All Saints' Day Wikipedia, “The Calendar of the Church Year” (the Episcopal Church calendar of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer)
• 10 November St Martin's Eve: a charm day in the old Brauche books Egyptian Secrets, Vol. III, as printed on this site (Roberts Corner, post 108): “St. Martin's Eve (tenth November)”
• 11 November Martinmas: Saint Martin of Tours Wikipedia, “The Calendar of the Church Year” (the Episcopal Church calendar of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer)
• 6 December St Nicholas Day: Nicholas of Myra Wikipedia, “The Calendar of the Church Year” (the Episcopal Church calendar of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer)
• 24 December Christmas Eve Wikipedia, “Christmas Eve”
• 25 December Christmas: the Nativity of Our Lord Wikipedia, “The Calendar of the Church Year” (the Episcopal Church calendar of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer)

Pennsylvania German days

• 2 February Groundhog Day (Grundsaudaag): from the Candlemas weather lore of the Germans; the first official trek to Gobbler's Knob was in 1887 Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, “History”; Wikipedia, “Groundhog Day”
• 6 October German-American Day: marks the arrival of the first German immigrants at Philadelphia in 1683 Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5719 (1987), American Presidency Project

Pennsylvania

• 14 June Flag Day: a legal holiday in Pennsylvania 44 P.S. § 11 (Pennsylvania legal holidays), as listed by FindLaw: “Fourteenth day of June”

Remembrances

• 25 January Arthur H. Lewis dies, author of Hex, 1995: Germantown, Philadelphia Temple University Special Collections, Arthur H. Lewis papers
• 30 January Christopher Witt dies, physician and hermit of the Wissahickon, 1765 (date uncertain): a single source gives the day World Religions and Spirituality Project, “Johannes Kelpius” (timeline)
• 2 February Christopher Sauer the elder baptized, Ladenburg, 1695: Germantown printer of the first German Bible in America; the source gives 2 February 1695 for his entry at Ladenburg Deutsche Biographie, “Sauer, Christoph”
• 1 March Conrad Beissel born, Eberbach, 1691: founder of the Ephrata Cloister University of Geneva, Voices of the Swiss and German Settlers, “Beissel, Johann Conrad”
• 24 June Kelpius's company lands at Philadelphia, 1694: the Wissahickon hermits; Old Style; another source gives 23 June Christian History Institute, “Wissahickon Hermits”
• 6 July Conrad Beissel dies at Ephrata, 1768 University of Geneva, Voices of the Swiss and German Settlers, “Beissel, Johann Conrad”
• 11 August Don Yoder dies, 2015: folklorist of the Pennsylvania Germans; died at Devon, Pennsylvania Yearbook of German-American Studies, “Don Yoder (1921-2015): In Memoriam”
• 27 August Don Yoder born, Altoona, 1921 Yearbook of German-American Studies, “Don Yoder (1921-2015): In Memoriam”
• 25 September Christopher Sauer the elder dies, Germantown, 1758 Deutsche Biographie, “Sauer, Christoph”
• 27 September Arthur H. Lewis born, Mahanoy City, 1906 Temple University Special Collections, Arthur H. Lewis papers
• 1 October Nelson D. Rehmeyer born, North Hopewell Township, 1868 (date uncertain): the powwow doctor of Hex Hollow; a single source gives the day Find a Grave, memorial 109023095
• 16 November Mountain Mary dies, Oley Hills, 1819: Anna Maria Jung, Braucherin of the Oley Valley Goschenhoppen Historians, “Mountain Mary, Part 1”
• 27 November Nelson Rehmeyer killed, Hex Hollow, York County, 1928: the night of 27–28 November UP dispatch, Washington Daily News, 11 January 1929 (“last Nov 27”), Library of Congress Chronicling America; Find a Grave memorial 109023095