Petertide (also known as St Peter's Tide) refers to the Sunday nearest to St Peter's Day on 29 June and to the period around that day.

In Anglicanism, Petertide is one of two major traditional periods for the ordination of new priests (the other being Michaelmas, around 29 September).[1][2]

Around Penzance in west Cornwall, the period has long been celebrated by Midsummer bonfires and sometimes the burning of effigies of unpopular residents.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Judith Jago (August 1997). Aspects of the Georgian Church: Visitation Studies of the Diocese of York, 1761-1776. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 159. ISBN 0-8386-3692-6.
  2. ^ Eileen Murphy (26 June 1999). "Church welcomes rise in new clergy". The Independent.
  3. ^ Wladyslaw Lach-Szyrma (1884). "Notes from Cornwall". The Antiquary. X: 263–4.


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