Dear Graham:
The Byzantine Calendar marked the feast of Daniel and the Three Children
on 17 December. I don't know how far back this observance goes. I am
pretty sure that some of the calendars in Wormald's English Benedictine
Kalendars Before 1100 list this feast on or around that date. Is this the
kind of example you were wanting or do you need something a bit earlier?
Cheers,
Martin Howley
Martin Howley, Humanities Librarian, Tel: (709) 737-8514
QE II Library, Memorial Univ of Newfoundland FAX: (709) 737-2153
St John's, NFLD, Canada A1B 3Y1 E-mail:[log in to unmask]
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Dr G.R. Jones wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me if a day was set aside either in the East or the West for
> commemoration of the Three Hebrews in the Fiery Furnace (Bk of Daniel)? There
> was an excellent paper at the Pilgrimage conference in Cork last week dealing
> with their frequent appearance in Irish iconography from the ninth century
> onwards after an apparent general hiatus in the West which contrasted with
> widespread Continental deployment of the motif in Late Antique contexts.
>
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