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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