Home Site Map January February March April May June July August September October November December 1st April April Fools Day The morning of April the 1st has long been associated with trickery and practical jokes. 15th April Roman offering to Tellus, a version of the earth mother. Usually an unborn calf was burned to protect their farms. 21st April Roman festival to the guardian of livestock, also the day that Romulus and Remus discovered Rome. 23 April St George's Day The patron Saint of England. 24 April St Marks Eve It is said that if you spent the night on the porch of the local church, you would see all those who were going to die in the coming year. You had to stay awake and repeat the vigil for the rest of your life. It was also a time for divining other aspects of the future. 28 April Start of the Roman festival of Florania, to the goddess of flowering plants and sexuality. 30 April Walpurgis Night, Beltane Eve Celtic Fire Festival celebrating the coming of summer.