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> >>> Today (26. July) is the feast day of
> >>
> >> Anne
> >>
> >> In the Hereford Calendar, a Semidouble feast with nine lessons.
> >>
> > From what date would this feast have been celebrated in the Hereford
> > Calendar?
>
> There is probably no way of telling - there seem to be very few Hereford
> service books: we are lucky to have the printed Missal and Breviary.
>
> Frere dates the introduction of the feast to 1383 for the Sarum Calendar -
> which is probably too early for R.W. Pfaff's New Liturgical Feasts in Later
> Medieval England (1970)
John,
It is because I am reading Pfaff right now that I asked. He claims that the feast of
St Anne was instituted in 1383 and characterizes this as one of the "milestones" by
which later medieval English calendars are sometimes dated. This surprised me, as
I have also read that devotion to St Anne was relatively precocious in England,
dating back at least to the 12th century. But perhaps "devotion" in general does not
always develop into a formalized feast.
Cheers,
Jim
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