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From: Self <HOWDEN/EG1MHJ>
To: medieval [log in to unmask]
Subject: purgatorial Saturday?
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 14:00:41 +0100
Further to my original query Linda Olson has kindly informed me that
in France at least it was on a Monday rather than on a Saturday that
masses for the dead were regularly offered, and my friend [Walter Gibson
of Case Western Reserve] has supported his original suggestion of
Saturday being the day appropriate for praying for souls in Purgatory
thus: "Saturday was uniquely the Virgin's day, as she had been the
only representative of the Godhead when the Lord (and by implication
the other two persons of the Trinity) had lain in the tomb. And the
Virgin, of course, was the intercessor par excellence"
Once again I shall welcome any further thoughts, sources,
etc.
Malcolm Jones
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