medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Thursday, July 27, 2006, at 6:07 pm, John Briggs wrote:
> Jim Bugslag wrote:
> >
> > I believe it was the feast of the Conception of the Virgin,
> certainly
> > relevant to St Anne, that I couldn't think of in my last note.
> This
> > begins to crop up remarkably early in England, 11th century I
> think.
> > Certainly related rather directly to St Anne, which, once again,
> surprises
> > me that she didn't have her own feast until so late.
>
> I think the point is that the cult of St Anne followed (and was a
> result of)
> the devotion to the Conception.
Of course, in some places Anne had a feast much earlier than this. She
appears twice in the Marble Calendar of Naples (earlier 9th-cent.), a
document reflecting the mixed "western" and "eastern" practices of a
primarily Latin-speaking diocese in a recently autonomous duchy that
still considered itself in some sense part of what Sir Dimitri Obolensky
has called the Byzantine Commonwealth. On 25. July this calendar
records the feast of Sts. Eupraxia and Anne. Both of these otherwise
quite separate saints are celebrated in eastern-rite churches on this
day and it would appear that Naples at this point was commemorating them
jointly. And on 9. September, the day following the Nativity of the
BVM, Naples celebrated a feast of her parents, Joachim and Anne.
Best,
John Dillon
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