Then there's the Peter the Venerable connection. Unless I'm misinformed
(note how I place the blame on others) he raised the Transfiguration to
a big feast at Cluny.
KW
Stefaan Vermeire wrote:
>
> The orthodox East celebrate also the Transfiguration on August 6. I think
> that the historical events described below are a coincidence, and were not
> the real reasons to place the feast on that particular date. I shall check
> my reference.
> Stefaan R.W. Vermeire.
>
> > My ancient St. Andrew missal says this: "The feast of the
> > Transfiguration of Jesus had long been solemnized on August 6, in
> > different churches of the East and West. Calistus III extended it to the
> > whole Church, to commemorate the victory of John Hunyady over the Turks,
> > near Belgrade in 1456, and which was announced at Rome on August 6." The
> > missal also decalres it the "title-feast" of the Cathedral of Rome (St.
> > Saviour and St. John Lateran). My French missal gives the date as 1457,
> > but says essentially the same thing.
> > Kathryn Wildgen
> >
> > John Wickstrom wrote:
> > >
> > > A Lutheran friend was remarking that they celebrate the feast of the
> > > Transfiguration on the last Sunday of Epiphany season and made a good
> case
> > > for that placement in the calendar: that it represents the culmination
> of
> > > the manifestation of divinity in Christ begun with the Epiphany. That
> made
> > > me wonder what the reason was for the RC calendar placing it on the
> rather
> > > unremarkable date of August 6. Anyone know?
> >
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