medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Monday, September 5, 2005, at 5:49 pm, John Briggs wrote:
> John Dillon wrote:
> > Today is the feast day of pope saint Gregory I, celebrated until
> > recently on 12. March, his _dies natalis_.
>
> Where he is to be found, somewhat ecumenically, in the Book of
> Common Prayer
> (as "Gregorius Mag., Bp of Rome & Conf.").
Somewhat ecumenically, the sanctoral calendars used by the
Orthodox-Catholic Church of America
http://www.orthodoxcatholicchurch.org/calendar.html/
and by the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod
http://216.88.180.29/pages/internal.asp?NavID=867
have him on 3. September.
"Recently" was 1969, of
> course,
Or even later, depending upon how quickly other churches followed Roman
practice.
> and the person displaced was Pius X, which sounds like a joke of
> some sort.
Poor Pius X -- exiled to just after Ferragosto! He's on 21. August,
where he replaced Jeanne de Chantal. In this game of musical chairs
Jeanne's memorial was moved to 12. December -- sort of: in the USA, it
occurs on 18. August, retaining Our Lady of Guadelupe on 12. December
(so it's a good guess that J.'s memorial also occurs at some other time
in Mexico); in Italy, it occurs on 12. August).
Still, I suppose Pius can console himself with his statue atop the
facade of Brindisi Cathedral (he's on the far right after the dubiously
attested proto-bishop Leucius; the soldier-saint Theodore of Amasea,
whose supposed relics are in the cathedral; and the early modern native
son Lawrence of Brindisi):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12837449@N00/13745487/
http://www.brindisiweb.com/storia/foto/corpus1.jpg
Best again,
John Dillon
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