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Our Lenten Wreath!
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À écouter et réécouter !
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Let's Prepare for Lent
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We need more priest who tell the truth: the actual, brutal, naked and unfiltered truth.
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Catholic girl problem be like
He's devout
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He's discerning a religious vocation
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Our Lady of Fatima: Apparitions
“My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge, and the way that will lead you to God.”
-Our Lady of Fatima, June 13th 1917
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The Apparitions of Our Lady
I. The first apparition
II. Saint Anthony’s feast day
III. The vision of hell
IV. The prison
V. The cure and the sacrifices
VI. The miracle of the sun 
VII. Collection of pictures
I. May 13th 1917, the first apparition
 Lucia Dos Santos and her two cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, took their sheeps to graze outside of Fatima, Cova da Iria. As they were playing together, a flash lighted up the sky. They gathered their sheeps quickly, thinking a storm was brewing in the distance. A second flash them to jump, then, a beautiful young woman appeared a few meters away from them, on a holm oak. She was dressed in white, more brilliant than the sun. Her face, indescribably beautiful, and was neither sad nor happy, but serious with an air of mild reproach. Her hands, joined together as if she were praying, were resting at her breast and pointing upward. A rosary hung from her right hand.
Our Lady: Do not be afraid; I will not harm you.
Lucia: Where is Your Grace from?
Our Lady: I am from heaven
Lucia: And what does Your Grace wish of me?
Our Lady: I have come to ask you to come here for six months in succession on the thirteenth day of each month at this same hour. Later I will tell you who I am and what I want. Afterward, I will return here a seventh time.
Lucia: And will I go to heaven, too?
Our Lady: Yes, you will.
Lucia: And Jacinta?
Our Lady: Also.
Lucia: And Francisco?
Our Lady: Also, but he must say many rosaries.
Lucia: Is Maria das Neves already in heaven?
Our Lady: Yes, she is.
Lucia: And Amélia?
Our Lady: She will be in purgatory until the end of the world. Do you wish to offer yourselves to God to endure all the sufferings that He may be pleased to send you, as both an act of reparation for the sins with which He is offended and an act of supplication for the conversion of sinners?
Lucia: Yes, we do.
Our Lady: Well then, you will have much to suffer. But the grace of God will be your comfort
Then, She disappeared.
Lucia told her two cousins to not tell anyone about the apparition. Maybe due to Jacinta’s  young age, she revealed the secret to her mother, who thought her daughter was imagining stories. After a while, her father, Ti Marto, came to believe her story.
Meanwhile in Lucia’s home, she was suffering greatly. Her mother, Maria Rosa, was extremely angered by her daughter. She believed that the young Lucia was blasphemous and that she had sinned gravely. She was mocked by her family and her friends. When Jacinta was informed, she felt terrible. She asked her cousin for forgiveness, Lucia immediatly forgave her.
The three children talked amongst themselves about the apparition and reflected deeply on Her message. Francisco came up with the idea of giving their lunches to their sheeps, as a sacrifice for the conversion of sinners. They also deprived themselves of water, during long hot summer days.
Maria Rosa felt embarrassed by her daughter, she was scared that the story would spread in the village. So she asked her Parish Priest, Fr. Manuel, to pressure Lucia to recant it.
The Priest listened carefully and questioned her a lot, which caused Lucia to start doubting what she had seen. Which was one of the worst ordeals she had to deal with.
II. June 13th 1917, St Anthony of Padua’s feast day
During the afternoon, even though there were festivities going on in the village, the three children headed off to the Cova. There, they found a small crowd waiting for them. They decided to pray the Rosary with the people who were present. After doing so, the lightening flashed and the Lady appeared on the holm oak, like in May. Lucia spoke to her:
Lucia: Tell me, what does Your Grace wish of me?
Our Lady: I want you to come here on the thirteenth of next month. I want you to continue saying the Rosary every day. And after each one of the mysteries, my children, I want you to pray in this way: O my Jesus, forgive us our sins , save us from the fire of hell. Take all souls to heaven, especially those who are most in need. I want you to learn to read and write, and later I will tell you what else I want of you.
(Lucia asks for the cure of a sick person)
Our Lady: If he is converted, he will be cured during the year.
Lucia: Will you take us to heaven?
Our Lady: Yes, I shall take Jacinta and Francisco soon, but you will remain a little longer, since Jesus wishes you to make me known and loved on earth. He wishes also for you to establish devotion in the world to my Immaculate Heart. 
Lucia: Must I remain in the world alone?
Our Lady: Not alone, my child, and you must not be sad. I will be with you always, and my Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the way which will lead you to God.
Lucia later wrote: As Our Lady spoke these last words, she opened her hands and for the second time, she communicated to us the rays of that immense light. We saw ourselves in this light, as it were, immersed in God. Jacinta and Francisco seemed to be in that part of the light which rose towards Heaven, and I in that which was poured out on the earth.In front of the palm of Our Lady’s right hand was a heart encircled by thorns which pierced it..We understood that this was the Immaculate Heart of Mary, outraged by the sins of humanity, and seeking reparation.You know now, Your Excellency, what we referred to when we said that Our Lady had revealed a secret to us in June. At the time, Our Lady did not tell us to keep it a secret, but we felt moved to do so by God.
The small crowd, although they had not perceived our Lady herself, had seen a few things such as the lightening, a certain dimming of the sun or a little grey cloud that came and went. They believed and truly converted.
This second apparition alarmed even more the children’s families, especially their mothers. The two women understood that the rumors of the apparition were expanding through Fatima, and maybe even outside of it. Plus, the Parish Priest started to believe that it was truly real, but maybe of demonic origins.
III. July 13th1917, the vision of hell
As they arrived to the Cova, the three children saw a large number of people praying the Rosary. Soon enough, there was flash of lightening and the Lady appeared above the holm oak. Mr. Marto, who was there too, noticed a small greyish cloud hovered the tree and that a breeze started to blow:
Lucia: what does Your Grace wish of me?
Our Lady: I want you to come here on the 13th of next month, to continue to pray the Rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary, in order to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war, because only she can help you. 
Lucia: I would like to ask you to tell us who you are, and to work a miracle so that everybody will believe that you are appearing to us. 
Our Lady: Continue to come here every month; in October, I will tell you who I am and what I want and I will perform a miracle for all to see and believe. Sacrifice yourselves for sinners and say many times, especially whenever you make some sacrifice: “O Jesus, it is for the love of you, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
I. The vision of hell
Lucia later wrote:
As Our Lady spoke these last words, she opened her hands once more, as she had done during the two previous months. The rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw as it were a sea of fire. Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. (It must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me.) The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repellant likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals. This vision lasted but an instant. How can we ever be grateful enough to our kind heavenly Mother, who had already prepared us by promising, in the first Apparition, to take us to heaven. Otherwise, I think we would have died of fear and terror.”
II. The chastisement
Our Lady: You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God wishes to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved and there will be peace. The war is going to end; but if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illumined by an unknown light, know that this is a great sign given to you by God that He is about to punish the world for its crimes, by means of war, famine, and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy Father.
III. Russia’s errors and needed conversion
Our Lady: To prevent this, I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the Communion of Reparation on First Saturdays. If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world. In Portugal, the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved. Do not tell this to anybody. Francisco, yes, you may tell him. When you pray the Rosary, say after each mystery: “O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who are most in need.”
Lucia: Is there anything Your Grace wish of me?
Our Lady: No, I do not want anything more of you today.
IV. August 13th-19th 1917, the prison
On August 13th, the three children were unable to come to the Cova da Iria to meet our Lady. They had been kidnapped by the mayor of a neighbouring village who wanted to know the secret of the third apparition. He imprisoned them and threatened to plunge them in boiling oil. But they held fast.
Our Lady certainly appeared at the Cova, but didn’t find the three children. People explained that they saw a cloud hover the holm oak for a few minutes.
After they were released from prison, on August 19th, Lucia was with Francisco and another cousin at Valinhos. Around 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the temperature started to cool down suddenly. Lucia sensed that something was going to happen, she sent someone to get Jacinta, who arrived on time when our Lady appeared:
Lucia: What does Your Grace wish of me?
Our Lady: I want you to continue going to the Cova da Iria on the thirteenth day of each month and to continue praying the Rosary every day. On the last month, I will perform a miracle for all to believe. (She started to look sad) If they had not taken you to Ourém, the miracle would have been even greater.
Lucia: What does Your Grace want done with the money that people leave at Cova da Iria?
Our Lady: Have two portable stands made. You and Jacinta with two other girls dressed in white carry one of them, and let Francisco with three other boys carry the second one. The portable stands are for the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. The money that is left over should be contributed to the chapel they shall build.
Lucia: I would like to ask you for the healing of some sick persons.
Our Lady: Yes, I will cure some during the year. (She looked very sad) Pray, pray a lot, and offer up sacrifices for sinners; many souls go to hell because there is no one to offer up sacrifices and pray for them.
V. September 13th 1917, the cure and sacrifices
The three children left their home to go to the Cova. As they arrived, they saw an enormous crowd of people, about 20.000, waiting for them. Some climbed up trees to see the three seers making their way to the Cova with difficulty. Others reached to them, falling on their knees, and begged them to place their petitions before our Lady. A few people, who were far from the children, shouted from the distance:
“For the love of God, ask Our Lady to cure my son who is a cripple!”
“And cure mine who is blind!”
“Cure mine who is deaf!”
“Ask her to bring back my husband! And my son who has gone to war!”
And many other petitions.
Lucia later wrote: I give thanks to God, offering Him the faith of our good Portuguese people, and I think: “If these people so humbled themselves before three poor children, just because they were mercifully granted the grace to speak to the Mother of God, what would they not do if they saw Our Lord Himself in person before them?” Well, none of this was called for here! It was a distraction of my pen, leading me away where I did not mean to go.
Once they arrived at the Cova da Iria, near the holm oak, they prayed the Rosary with the crowd. The same phenomenons from the previous apparitions happened before the eyes of the thousands of people: the air suddenly cooled, the sun dimmed to the point where the stars could be seen, and a rain resembled iridescent petals or snowflakes that disappeared before touching the ground.
Then, with the usual flash of light, our Lady appeared on the holm oak.
Our Lady: Continue to pray the Rosary in order to obtain the end of the war. In October Our Lord will come, as well as Our Lady of Sorrows and Our Lady of Carmel, Saint Joseph will appear with the Child Jesus to bless the world. God is pleased with your sacrifices. He does not want you to sleep with the rope on, but only to wear it during the daytime.
Lucia: I was told to ask you many things, the cure of some sick people, of a deaf-mute…
Our Lady: Yes, I will cure some, but not others. In October I will perform a miracle so that all may believe.
She began to rise and disappeared.
VI. October 13th 1917, the miracle of the sun
Rain fell profusely that day. The three children and Lucia’s mother, who came because she was uncertain of what would actually happen, decided to leave early, knowing that there were going to be many people at the Cova da Iria and nearby places. And they were right. An enormous crowd, 70.000 people, was outside, some kneeling in the muddy ground.
Once they arrived in front of the holm oak, Lucia asked to everyone to close their umbrellas and to pray the Rosary. As they did, a light flashed and our Lady appeared:
Lucia: What does Your Grace wish of me?
Our Lady: I wish to tell you that I want a chapel built here in my honor. I am the Lady of the Rosary. Continue to pray the rosary every day. The war is going to end, and the soldiers will soon return to their homes.
Lucia: I have many things to ask you: if you would cure some sick persons, and if you would convert some sinners...
Our Lady: Some yes, but not others, they must amend their lives and ask forgiveness for their sins.
Then, she started to look sad and added:
Our Lady:  Do not offend the Lord our God any more, because He is already so much offended.
Then opening her hands, she made them reflect on the sun, and as she ascended, the reflection of her own light continued to be projected on the sun itself.
Lucia: Look at the sun!
Three scenes followed, Jacinta and Francesco could only see the first one.
The first:
It was the Holy Family, Saint Joseph and Our Lady (who appeared as Our Lady of The Rosary) were dressed in white but the Child Jesus was dressed in light red.  Christ and St. Joseph blessed the crowd by making the sign of the Cross three times.
The second:
It was Our Lord and Our Lady of Sorrows on their way to the Calvery. They were both overwhelmed with sorrow and sadness. Christ blessed the crowd again.
The third:
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, appeared holding gloriously holding the Child Jesus near Her Heart.
While Lucia was seeing the visions, the crowd observed odd phenomenons. The grey clouds parted, making the rain stop. They watched the sun, which looked like a silver disk, spin rapidly as it “danced” around the sky. Then it stopped momentarily, only to begin spinning vertiginously again. Its rim became scarlet; whirling, it scattered red flames across the sky.Their light was reflected on the ground, on the trees, on the bushes, and on the faces and clothing of the people, which took on brilliant hues and changing colors.After performing this bizarre pattern three times, the globe of fire seemed to tremble, shake, and then plunge in a zigzag toward the terrified crowd.All this lasted about ten minutes. Finally, the sun zigzagged back to its original place and once again became still and brilliant, shining with its normal brightness. The cycle of the apparitions had ended.
VII. Collection of pictures:
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The Angel Of Portugal: The Apparitions
“Above all, accept and endure with submission the suffering which God will send you.”
-The Angel of Peace, Guardian of Portugal, Summer 1916
Before the Apparitions of Our Lady
The Angel apparitions
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I. The Angel Of Peace
Spring 1916, Lucia Dos Santos and her two cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, were herding their family’s flock of sheeps, near their village.After eating their lunch, the three children decided to pray the Rosary. As they prayed, a strong wind started blowing, they looked up and saw a light appear above some nearby trees. They watched carefully as it formed into the shape of a young man, of about fifteen. He was whiter than snow and brighter than crystal. He told them:
“Do not be afraid. I am the Angel of Peace. Pray with me.”
Francisco, unlike his little sister and his cousin, could only see the Angel. So he followed their actions and their words.
The three children prayed with him, repeated each word.
“My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love you! I ask pardon of You for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love You!”
He prayed it three times before saying:
“Pray thus. The hearts of Jesus and Mary are attentive to the voice of your supplications.”
Then, he suddenly disappeared. All of them were deeply moved by this event.
II. The Angel Of Portugal
Summer 1916, the three childreen were playing near Lucia’s home when the Angel appeared again. He asked them:
“What are you doing? Pray, pray incessantly. Offer prayers and sacrifices to the Almighty.”
Lucia was rather puzzled, she directly asked him:
“But how? How shall we sacrifice ourselves?” 
The Angel answered:
“ Pray! Pray very much! The Hearts of Jesus and Mary have designs of mercy on you. In everything you do, offer a sacrifice to God to make up for the sins by which God is offended and in supplication for the conversion of sinners. You will thus draw down peace upon your country. I am its Angel Guardian, the Angel of Portugal. Above all, accept and endure with submission the suffering which God will send you.”
Then, disappearing once more.
The two girls explained to Francisco what had said the Angel so he asked:
“But how can we suffer? We’re not sick. We have enough to eat and a place to live.”
Not long after, his older brother joined the army and he realised the meaning of the words of the Angel. The three children and their families were deeply affected by the departure of the brother. Trouble was also in Lucy’s home, her father started spending money on alcohol which caused her great sufferings.
She prayed with her arms stretched out to the sky: “Lord, we offer Thee all these sufferings for the conversion of poor sinners.”
III. The Holy Trinity and the Host
Autumn 1916,  the Angel appeared a third time to the three children, when they were praying their Rosary. He was holding a chalice in his hands and a sacred Host was suspended above it, drop of blood falling from Him into the vessel. Then, the Angel prostrated himself on the ground, the chalice and the Host still in the air, and repeated three times:
“Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly, and I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference with which He Himself is offended. And, through the infinite merits of his most sacred Heart, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the conversion of poor sinners”
Then, rose up and gave the Host to Lucia, made Jacinta and Francisco drink the content of the chalice. As he did, he said:
“Take and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, horribly outraged by ungrateful men. Repair their crimes and console your God”
After the Communion, he prostrated on the ground again and prayed, three more times, with the children:
“Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore You profoundly, and I offer You the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference with which He Himself is offended. And, through the infinite merits of his most sacred Heart, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of You the conversion of poor sinners” Before disappearing for the last time.
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Resurrection Cakes: Recipe
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This is my family's traditional version of the Italian Easter brioche. It represents the Sepulchre of Christ. It is important to roll the stone before eating them! I hope you'll enjoy them😊
Ingredients:
🌺250g of flour
🌺50 g of (melted) butter
🌺45 g of sugar
🌺10 g of fresh baker's yeast
🌺10 cl of milk
🌺1 egg
🌺1/2 tablespoon of vanilla extract
🌺1/2 teaspoon of salt
🌺1 pack of marzipan (ready to roll)
🌺1 egg yolk
Recipe:
1. Pour the flour into a bowl. Add the sugar, the salt and yeast.
2. Add the egg, the vanilla extract, the milk and the melted butter.
3. Mix everything with your hands or with a spatula until you get a sticky dough.
4. Start kneading until the dough is firm and homogeneous. Knead energetically for 10 minutes without stopping.
5. Cover the dough and place it in a cool place and away from the air for 2 hours.
6. Flour a work surface and then remove your dough brioche by kneading slightly. Divide into 10 pieces but keep some dough, we'll need it later.
7. Roll each small dough into a long pudding of about 15 cm. Take two branches and braid them. Then, create a crown by sticking the two sides of the braid together.
8. Take the leftover dough and break it in 5 pieces. Roll them so they are more or less flat, then create 5 small balls with marzipan. Place one in each of the five pieces of dough. Close the dough on the marzipan to make a bigger ball.
9. Place them inside the brioche.
10. Place the brioches on a plate covered with parchment paper, brush them with the egg yolk.
11. Place the resurrection cakes in the oven, preheated at 175°c for 15 minutes.
There you go! The beautiful resurrection brioches are ready to be eaten, don't forget to roll the stone before!
Bon appétit !
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Anyone interested to join this? I personally love books💕💕💕
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Green Gables Book Club introduction
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Hi Hello beautiful little flower! Welcome to the Green Gables Book Club!  I’m Anne-Thérèse, the admin of this page, a book-lover and writing addict! I created this club because I couln’t find any people who like books and writing around me…
This club is for fiction-lovers, with light hearts and flower souls.
To not create any problem between the members of the club and so it stays friendly to younger members, here are the subjects we should not talk about:
-erotic literature
-political literature
You can ask questions in Ask! and post something in Submit a post!
Respect and good language is obligatory for each post and question :D
I hope you’ll enjoy your stay here!
(None of the pictures and gifs are mine unless stated)
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🌹Recipe: The three wise men’s pie
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Rejoice! It is the day of the Manifestation of the Lord to the Nations!
A traditional French and Belgian pie for the Epiphany? What a wonderful idea!
Ingredients:
2 packets of puff pastry
140g of almond powder
100g of white sugar
2 eggs
75g of butter
1 egg yolk
1 bean
Recipe:
1.Place a puff pastry in a pie plate and prick it with a fork here and there multiple times.
2. Make the butter melt in a small pot.
3. In a bowl, mix the almond powder, the sugar, the 2 eggs and the melted butter.
4. Place the dough in the pie pan, on the puff pastry, and hide the bean inside the dough.
5. Cover with the second puff pastry, sticking and rolling the edges together.
6. Make drawings on the upper puff pastry and brush it with the egg yolk.
7. Bake it for 25 minutes at 200°C /392°F ; check the cooking regularly.
Enjoy❤️
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✝️Homemade Saints wallpapers🕯️
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🌹What is Epiphany?🌹
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(The adoration of the Magi by Edward Burne-Jones, 1904)
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw His star when it rose and have come to worship Him.”
Matthew 2:1-2
-What is Epiphany?
Epiphany, celebrated on the 6th of January, is the day when the three wise men, Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar, come to worship the Lord and offer Him gifts. They bring Him gold, frankincense and myrrh. This feast  is twelve days after Christmas. It is one of the oldest feasts of Christianity, dating back to the fourth or even the third century.
-What does Epiphany mean?
Epiphany means manifestation. It is the Manifestation of The Lord to the heathen in the person of the Magi. The meaning of the gifts according to Origen in the Contra Celsum are: "gold, as to a king; myrrh, as to one who was mortal; and incense, as to a God."
-What are the popular Epiphany traditions?
Chalking the door: the house blessing
Use a chalk and write above the home’s entrance door,
20 + C + M + B + 19
The letters have two meanings:
1. They are the first letters of the Magi’s names
2. They mean: “Christus Mansionem Bendicat” (May Christ bless this house)
The numbers mean the year we’ve just entered, in this case, it is 2019. The “+” represents the Cross.
Chalking the door is an invitation for Jesus to be our guest in our home for the up-coming year.
The Magi’s Pie and the bean
The Magi’s pie is mostly made in French speaking countries such as France (Québec and Acadia too), Belgium, Switzerland but also in Lebanon.
It usually made of puff pastry and “à la frangipane” (it is made the frangipane way).
A bean is put in the dough so when the pie is ate, someone will find it and becomes the king or the queen of the day. The bean represents the Child Jesus, long searched by the three wise men (or as it’s called in French: Les Rois Mages, The Wise Kings).
Bye❤️
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La Valletta. #malta #lavalletta #valletta2018 (presso Valletta, Malta)
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