medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Phyllis Jestice wrote:
>
> Today (26. May) is the feast day of:
Augustine of Canterbury
In the Sarum calendar, an Inferior double feast, with three lessons at
Matins if in Eastertide - which it isn't.
> Philip Neri
Philip Neri seems to have bumped Augustine in the Tridentine calendar. When
it was decided to reinstate Augustine, possibly in a post-Vatican II fit of
misplaced ecumenism, he was reinstated on 27 May - which caused Bede to be
shifted to 25 May, resulting in general confusion on both sides of the
Atlantic.
But today is the Feast of Corpus Christi, in the Sarum calendar a Major
double feast.
There is confusion in my sources as to when Trinity Sunday became a major
(or Major double) feast, but one would normally expect it to have an octave
with rulers (in fact, it would seem that Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were
ferias). However, the presence (we've already done that joke) of Corpus
Christi (and its octave) interrupts that. Corpus Christi was instituted as
a feast in 1264, but the memo didn't reach Salisbury for some reason, and it
was only added to the calendar in about 1317.
John Briggs
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