the.com/ember days
Quarterly fasting days the Church scheduled so precisely it forgot why anyone bothered.
four seasonsThree days of fasting each quarter, all year
name originLikely Latin quatuor tempora, not glowing coals
ordination timingPriests were traditionally ordained on Ember Saturdays
weather loreFolk belief used them to forecast the coming season
near-extinctVatican II made them optional, and they vanished