medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Dillon wrote:
>
> Today (18. January) is the feast day of:
>
> Prisca of Rome (??).
In the York Calendar, a Feast with three lections.
> While we are on the subject of Prisca and Peter, it may be well to
> recall that from early times until the rearrangement of the Roman
> Calendar in 1969 today was also the feast day of:
>
> The Chair of Peter at Rome.
The Oxford Book of Days says that the feast was "suppressed in 1960". It
also says that it was a Frankish feast later adopted in Rome. It had
duplicated the existing 22 February feast, which was accordingly
re-designated for St Peter's Chair at Antioch.
> There was also a feast, on 22. February, of the Chair of Peter at
> Antioch.
John Briggs
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