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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Mon Jun 9, 2014, 06:22 AM Jun 2014

Holy Rood Day

It was the custom to go nutting on Holy Rood Day, September 14. This day commemorates the recovery of a large piece of the Holy Cross by the Emperor Heraclius after it had been plundered from Jerusalem by the King of Persia in 615.

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Holy Rood Day (Original Post) My Good Babushka Jun 2014 OP

Why is it called a rood? Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2014 #1

It's a pole My Good Babushka Jun 2014 #2

Thanks! I had no idea. Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2014 #3

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)

1. Why is it called a rood?

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 06:18 PM

Jun 2014

I have seen Holy Rood Street in Houston and wondered what it was about.

My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)

2. It's a pole

Reply to Manifestor_of_Light (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 06:37 PM

Jun 2014

Rood is an archaic word for pole, from Old English rōd "pole", specifically "cross", from Proto-Germanic *rodo, cognate to Old Saxon rōda, Old High German ruoda "rod".

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)

3. Thanks! I had no idea.

Reply to My Good Babushka (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 06:57 PM

Jun 2014

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