At 02:29 PM 7/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
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Thanks, Francine. Now another question, and a very ignorant one at that:
where would one look to find this feast of the Conception of St. John - is
there a liturgical calendar, which gives the various feasts, as celebrated
in the m.a.?
Bernadette Giguere.
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> I've been thinking about this, too. If the schema is spring
>equinox--Annunciation to Mary, summer solstice--birth of John, winter
>solstice--birth of Jesus, then one would expect autumn equinox--Annunciation
>to Elizabeth or Zachary. And I believe there is a feast of the Conception of
>John on 23 Sept., right where one would expect to find it. Since the
>Annunciation and Conception were considered simultaneous, this would
>probably be the same date.
>
> Francine Nicholson
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