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# Circumcision of the Lord |
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March 25, The Crucifixion. |
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#Feast of All Saints |
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*remember that some medeival calenders got dates of saint's feast days wrong, or debated the date between differnt church sections. |
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*local areas would celebrate only the saint's feast days relevant to them - they might celebrate the well known saints of their country, and also a few local saints, and saints relevant ot their landscape and specialities (eg farming saints, saints of sailors, vinters, etc) and also saints relevant to their personal circumstances (female saints for a convent, saints of chastity for a person who had taken a vow of chastity, etc). There was a big push in the 12th century to introduce saint thomas beckett to europe (from england)- gifts of clothing with embroideries of his martyrdom were sent to many european churches as a publicity campaign. |
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*Books of saints days existed in medieval times. One 12th century example online is the [[St Albans psalter|http://www.abdn.ac.uk/stalbanspsalter/english/index.shtml]], also with an [[essay|http://www.abdn.ac.uk/stalbanspsalter/english/essays/calendar.shtml#feastdays]] about the saints days within. |
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Revision as of 16:24, 17 July 2004
January
- Circumcision of the Lord
February
March
March 25, The Crucifixion.
April
May
- St Monica (Patron Saint of Alcoholics)
June
July
August
September
October
November
- Feast of All Saints
- Edmund the Martyr
- St Cecilia (Patron saint of Music)
December
Endnotes
- remember that some medeival calenders got dates of saint's feast days wrong, or debated the date between differnt church sections.
- local areas would celebrate only the saint's feast days relevant to them - they might celebrate the well known saints of their country, and also a few local saints, and saints relevant ot their landscape and specialities (eg farming saints, saints of sailors, vinters, etc) and also saints relevant to their personal circumstances (female saints for a convent, saints of chastity for a person who had taken a vow of chastity, etc). There was a big push in the 12th century to introduce saint thomas beckett to europe (from england)- gifts of clothing with embroideries of his martyrdom were sent to many european churches as a publicity campaign.
- Books of saints days existed in medieval times. One 12th century example online is the http://www.abdn.ac.uk/stalbanspsalter/english/index.shtml, also with an http://www.abdn.ac.uk/stalbanspsalter/english/essays/calendar.shtml#feastdays about the saints days within.
