Carolyn Muessig wrote:
>
> Today, 21 November, is the feast of ...
>
> * Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
> - associated with story, told in several apocryphal
> gospels, that she was brought to the Temple of Jerusalem at
> age of three; probable origin of the feast in the East is
> linked with dedication of new St Mary's church in Jerusalem
> in 543; earliest observance in the West was in eleventh-
> century England, but only in 1585 did this feast become
> part of the Western calendar
>
> * Gelasius I, pope (496)
> - insisted on communion in both kinds due to Manicheans'
> regard of wine as unlawful, and their abstinence from the
> eucharistic cup; referred to bishop of Constantinople as
> 'an unimportant suffragan of Heraclea'
>
> * Albert of Louvain, bishop of Liege, martyr (1192)
> - when his election as bishop was contested, he travelled
> in disguise to Rome, where the pope confirmed the election;
> while in exile in Rheims, he was murdered by agents of
> emperor Henry VI
>
> And two years ago Jim Bugslag asked:
> Is this not also the feast day of St Columban, the 6th-century Irish
> monk and missionary, founder of Luxeuil and Bobbio, and author of
> both a monastic rule and a couple of rather harsh-sounding
> penitentiaries?
>
> Anyone out there know?
<Cappelli's 'Cronologia' says yes, his feast day is on the 21st of
November.
Luciana>
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> Carolyn Muessig
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