medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Pat McIntosh-Spinnler wrote:
>
> I have a late medieval procedural problem.
>
> I know that the greater feast displaces the lesser; however, what
> would happen when the patronal feast of a cathedral church clashed
> with that of a more widely-venerated saint and martyr?
>
> The precise instance is that of Dunblane Cathedral, where the
> eponymous St Blane's feast is on the same day as that of St Lawrence
> (variously 10th and 11th August in different sources.) I'm not
> certain where St Blane's relics were, but I would imagine the
> founder's feast involved major action whether he could take part in
> the procession himself or not. Would St Lawrence's celebration be
> tucked into a side chapel, or postponed till the next day? What would
> have been the solution at the end of the fifteenth century?
I think you've answered your own question - if you've found St Lawrence on
11th August, that is where he has been moved to! I would have expected St
Lawrence to have been moved a bit further away, because his Vigil could
still cause problems, and I would have expected both feasts to want two
Vespers. (At Sarum, the Patronal festival is a Principal double, with St
Laurence as a Simple feast with triple invitatory. At Hereford, he has a
Semidouble.)
John Briggs
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