The Legend of the Poinsettia

3. spun thread used for knitting, weaving, or sewing.
4. shine with a soft, slightly wavering light.
8. a large piece of woolen or similar material used as a covering on a bed or elsewhere for warmth.
11. a number of people or vehicles moving forward in an orderly fashion, especially as part of a ceremony.
13. add a color to or change the color of something by soaking it in a solution impregnated with a dye.
14. give out steady light without flame.
15. a wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.
16. form (fabric or a fabric item) by interlacing long threads passing in one direction with others at a right angle to them.

1. a building used for public Christian worship.
2. an apparatus for making fabric by weaving yarn or thread.
5. the ritual of chants, readings, prayers, and other ceremonies used in. the celebration of the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic church.
6. an open box from which cattle and horses feed. A trough or box in which fodder is laid for cattle, or the place in which horses and cattle are fed.
7. a place regarded as holy because of its associations with a divinity or a sacred person or relic, marked by a building or other construction.
8. a collection of things or quantity of material tied or wrapped up together.
9. twisted together untidily.
10. a thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present.
12. a cylinder or block of wax or tallow with a central wick which is lit to produce light as it burns.