Petertide

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Petertide (also known as St Peter's Tide) refers to the Sunday nearest to St Peter's Day on 29 June and to the period around that day.

In Anglicanism, Petertide is one of two major traditional periods for the ordination of new priests (the other being Michaelmas, around 29 September).{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eohthmfdt5wC&pg=PA159 | page = 159 | title = Aspects of the Georgian Church: Visitation Studies of the Diocese of York, 1761-1776 | author = Judith Jago |date=August 1997 | isbn = 0-8386-3692-6 | publisher = Fairleigh Dickinson University Press }}{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/church-welcomes-rise-in-new-clergy-1102462.html | title = Church welcomes rise in new clergy | author = Eileen Murphy | date = June 26, 1999 | newspaper = The Independent }}

Around Penzance in west Cornwall, the period has long been celebrated by Midsummer bonfires and sometimes the burning of effigies of unpopular residents.{{cite journal | journal = The Antiquary | volume = X | pages = 263–4 | year = 1884 | url = https://archive.org/details/antiquary09appegoog | author = Wladyslaw Lach-Szyrma | author-link = W. S. Lach-Szyrma | title = Notes from Cornwall }}