Mary and the Hazelnut
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The days around Assumption in Girsterklaus are a precious (hazelnut) core in the popular piety of Luxembourg.
Earlier, in the Country of Bidasoa, the crowd said that summer-summer went “from virgin to virgin”, that is, from Carmen (16 July) to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (15 August), and that, from there, it began to decay. The summer of this year has been powerful, has razed meadows and evaporated the water of springs as they did not remember the oldest of the place, as it was customary to say.
On August 15, when celebrating the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, a friend asked: “What need did the Church have to define as dogma that the Virgin Mary was attached to Heaven? What else did it believe that she died and stayed in the tomb? We would still love her equally, because we were Mother of our Lord. We would entrust ourselves to her as we do to saints and saints, whose souls are in Heaven. And there would not be this dogma that is …
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