Abigail - could you be a little more specific about the reason for having a
"discussion" on this issue?
There is not much to discuss - it is very well documented that most major
churches had a fixed date for the consecration day (it is highlighted in
the kalendarium in red, as a solemn feast), but that some also practised to
use a calculated (i.e. moveable) day, like, lets say, 3rd Sunday in June.
If it was moveable, was the mass or office placed at the back of liturgical
books, and not in the "Proprium de tempore", and rarely indicated in the
kalendarium.
I guess that you ask this question, because the dedication day often was
turned into a large popular event, with *the* fair of the year - people
coming in crowds to the cathedral from all the small villages many miles
around. An obvious occasion for a play! Is that your point?
Erik
At 15:12 -0400 06/04/00, Abigail Ann Young wrote:
> My sense is that these annual celebrations were not
>necessarily held on a set day which was the same from year to year, so
>that a parish didn't celebrate its dedication day on the actual
>anniversary of its consecration or on the feast day of their patron
>saint. The only contemporary discussion I know about dedication days
>is a sermon in John Mirk's Festiall. Can anyone point me to other
>discussions, modern or contemporary?
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