Saint Catherine's Day egg, sugar, lard or butter, and Caraway seeds. The custom of lighting a revolving pyrotechnic display (a 'Catherine Wheel firework') to celebrate the saint's feast day is assisted by the ready supply of such fireworks during the month of November, due to the secular celebration of Guy Fawkes Night earlier in the month. St. Catherine's taffy is a candy made by French Canadian girls to honor St. Catherine, the patron saint of unmarried women on her feast day. St. Catherine's Day is sometimes known in among French-Canadians as "taffy day," a day when marriage-age girls would make taffy for eligible
Daughters of the Holy Cross, Sisters of St. Andrew Daughters of the Holy Cross, Sisters of St. Andrew The Daughters of the Holy Cross, Sisters of St. Andrew (French: "Filles de la Croix, Sœurs de Saint-André"; Latin: "Institutum Filiarum Crucis seu Sororum Sancti Andreae"), is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and follow the evangelical way of life in common. Their mission includes instruction and education of youth and care of the sick. This religious institute was founded in the castle of Molante, near Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé, France, in 1807, by st. Andrew Fournet, with the help of st. Joan Elizabeth