Show PILGRIMS FAST DAY PREVIOUS to the start of the PIl- PIl PIlgrIms Brims grIms from Leyden Holland on their trip to AmerIca a solemn day of fasting was decreed the day be- be before tore fore leaving the day of July 1620 After the landing In Plymouth Ply Ply- Plymouth mouth the Colonists experienced gre great t hardships and as a means of at evidencing theIr reliance on Al AI Almighty mighty God a solemn day ot of fast fast- fasting leg ing was proclaImed for Wednesday tho da day ot of July 1623 On this day no food was as partaken ot of from sunrise to sunset but the entire day was spent In religious tace and Washington prayer Star |