Dear Carolyn:
Quite right about her dates, of course. She is late to be noted in a
list which is devoted to the medieval period.
On the discrepancy between your date for her feast day and mine: 4
October was her obit. According to the Attwater revision of Butler, she
died at 9:00 pm on that date. The following day the Gregorian reform of
the kalendar came into effect and 10 days were lost. Accordingly the feast
in her honour on 5 October was instantly transmuted into 15 October -- an
incongruous displacement from her actual date of decease. This presumably
makes her the both last saint of the old kalendar and the first of the
new!
Cheers,
Martin
Martin Howley, Humanities Librarian, Tel: (709) 737-8514
QE II Library, Memorial Univ of Newfoundland FAX: (709) 737-2153
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Carolyn Muessig wrote:
> Dear Martin,
>
> I did not include Theresa because of a technicality - her years.
> Usually I do not include saints who were born after 1500 in order to
> keep the list relatively medieval. But you're right we definitely
> should include her.
>
> Theresa of Avila: +1582, saint, mystic, and writer. Patron saint of
> Spain since 1617, beatified in 1622, and declared Doctor of the Church
> in 1970.
>
> But Martin, according to the book I have to hand (Dictionnaire de la
> Mystique, Brepols, 1993) her feast day is the 4 October and not the
> 15th. I have not been able to confirm this with another source.
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