Dear Garth,
Good point. I usually take the feast listings from Butler's *Lives of the
Saints* (1956), edited, revised and supplemented by Herbert Thurston and
Donald Attwater (London, Burns & Oates). I use this edition as it employs
the dates of the pre-Vatican II feasts, and is thus usually in accord with
the dates on which the feasts would have been celebrated in the Middle Ages.
A further note on the feast date of Eustace - according to the *Catholic
Encyclopedia* (another pre-Vatican II source) it is celebrated in the
West on 20 September and in the East on 2 November. Now we have three
possible feast days!
In regard to the vision of the crucifix being confused with that of St
Hubert's vision, all that Butler says on the subject is the following:
"His worthless legend relates that he was a Roman general under Trajan ...
and while out hunting one day he saw coming towards him a stag, between
whose antlers appeared a figure of Christ on the cross -which story
appears also in the legend of St Hubert and other saints - and a voice
issuing therefrom calling him by name."
I hope this dispels some of the confusion!
Yours,
Carolyn Muessig
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