I am interested in information on this feast day as well. I know that Otto
von Freising mentions it in connection with sack of Jerusalem in his
Historia de duabus civitatibus.
Stephen M. Carey
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1104
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Abigail Ann Young wrote:
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> Can anyone give me any information about a feast kept on 15 July
> referred to as the Division of the Apostles or (at least in Germany)
> as All Apostles' Day? Does it commemorate the scattering of the
> apostles to their various traditional mission fields after the death
> of St Stephen, or what?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Abigail
>
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