Martyr Days
St. Ignatius is remembered in Falport during Martyr Days – four days of celebration representing the four times St. Ignatius was martyrized. St. Ignatius' Day is the culmination of Martyr Days – a day for celebrating the fourth (and hopefully final) martyring of St. Ignatius – and is a day of burning effigies of St. Ignatius…this celebration has resulted in the Falport burning three times in its history.
History
The first celebration of St. Ignatius' death was held in 282 (Year of the Bipedal Swine).
Observance
The holiday is marked by the increased consumption of alcohol and exposed genitalia…the former is often exchanged for the latter.
Falport Burns!
A conflagration burned most of Freeport to ash (and bent nails) in 412 (Year of the Conjoined Halibut) after St. Ignatius Day celebrations get out of control and a burning 30 foot effigy of St. Ignatius collapsed into an adjacent candle factory.
A conflagration burned most of Freeport to ash (and, again bent nails) in 471 (Year of the Flightless Lynx) after St. Ignatius Day celebrations get out of control when a burning 45 foot effigy of St. Ignatius collapsed into an adjacent lamp oil warehouse. Within the year, candle factories and lamp oil warehouses are banned within the city.
In 603 (Year of the Enraged Octopus) a 50 foot burning effigy of St. Ignatius toppled into a brandy distillery while being carried through the city during St. Ignatius Day festivities, resulting in widespread destruction in the Lower District. Obviously no one would tolerate banning distilleries in the city, so it was decried that future effigies could only be burned inside the city if they were less than 15 feet in height.
A conflagration burned most of Freeport to ash (and, again bent nails) in 471 (Year of the Flightless Lynx) after St. Ignatius Day celebrations get out of control when a burning 45 foot effigy of St. Ignatius collapsed into an adjacent lamp oil warehouse. Within the year, candle factories and lamp oil warehouses are banned within the city.
In 603 (Year of the Enraged Octopus) a 50 foot burning effigy of St. Ignatius toppled into a brandy distillery while being carried through the city during St. Ignatius Day festivities, resulting in widespread destruction in the Lower District. Obviously no one would tolerate banning distilleries in the city, so it was decried that future effigies could only be burned inside the city if they were less than 15 feet in height.
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