Today, 21 November, is the feast of ...
* Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- associated with story, told in several apocryphal
gospels, that she was brought to the Temple of Jerusalem at
age of three; probable origin of the feast in the East is
linked with dedication of new St Mary's church in Jerusalem
in 543; earliest observance in the West was in eleventh-
century England, but only in 1585 did this feast become
part of the Western calendar
* Gelasius I, pope (496)
- insisted on communion in both kinds due to Manicheans'
regard of wine as unlawful, and their abstinence from the
eucharistic cup; referred to bishop of Constantinople as
'an unimportant suffragan of Heraclea'
* Albert of Louvain, bishop of Liege, martyr (1192)
- when his election as bishop was contested, he travelled
in disguise to Rome, where the pope confirmed the election;
while in exile in Rheims, he was murdered by agents of
emperor Henry VI
And two years ago Jim Bugslag asked:
Is this not also the feast day of St Columban, the 6th-century Irish
monk and missionary, founder of Luxeuil and Bobbio, and author of
both a monastic rule and a couple of rather harsh-sounding
penitentiaries?
Anyone out there know?
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Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
3 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
fax: +44.117.929.7850
phone: +44.117.928.8168
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