> From: CA Muessig [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Today, 24 June, is the feast of ...
>
> * the birthday of John the Baptist - it's a holiday in Quebec; salut la
> bas!
>
> In relation to the feast Butler writes:
> St Augustine remarking that the Church celebrates the festivals of
> saints on the day of their death, which in the true estimate of things
> is their great birthday, their birthday of eternal life, adds that the
> birthday of St John the Baptist forms an exception because he was
> sanctified in his mother's womb, so that he came into the world
> sinless.
>
Is it known when this feast was first celebrated or established? And
was it intentionally linked to the solstice?
Francine Nicholson
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