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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