The St Lawrence Jig
Scottish Country Dance Instruction
THE ST LAWRENCE JIG (J8x32) 3C (4C set) W. Ernst Eder Martello Tower 41- 8 1s cross RH, cast 1 place, 2s+1s circle 4H round to left
9-16 1s dance reels of 3 on sides (1s dance in and up to start)
17-24 1s+2s dance RH across, 1s+3s dance LH across and 1s end facing 1st corners
25-32 1s dance 'Hello-Goodbye' setting ending with petronella turn to 2nd places
(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)
Dance Information
Saint Lawrence or Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman Emperor Valerian ordered in 258.St. Lawrence is thought to have been born on 31 December AD 225, in Valencia (or less probably, in Huesca), the town from which his parents came in the later region of Aragon that was then part of the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis. The martyrs Orentius and Patientia are traditionally held to have been his parents.
"Lawrence before Valerianus", Fra Angelico (c. 1395 -1455), painting, c. 1447-1450
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