OCTOBER 25 ( SAINT CRISPIN'S DAY)

Popular legend hails Saint Crispin and his erstwhile companion, Crispinian as a pair of third -century Zealots who traveled from Rome to Soissons in France. There, it is said, they divided their remaining years between preaching the gospel and making shoes.
Crispin's feast day is remembered by shoemakers and leather workers, of whom he is patron saint. In the Aupulia region of the saint's nativ Italy one town celebrates the day with a huge caizane feed. And in King Henry V, Shakespare wrote about the battle of Agincourt, which took place on October 25, 1415, on the banks of the river Somme in France. Henry's exhauted soldiers were victorious, although out numbered five to one by the leaping, fresh-as-a daisy French army. The batlle was a bloodbath. Shakespeare wrote:
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day and comes safe home,
Will stand a-tiptoe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of crispian:
He that shall live this day and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neigbors,
Then he will strip his sleeves and show his scars,
And say, These wounds I had on Saint Crispin's Day