On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, CA. Muessig wrote:
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 12:04:00 +0000 (GMT)
> From: "CA. Muessig" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: FEAST 25 March
>
> Today, 25 March, is the feast of ...
>
> * the Annunciation
> - also known as Lady Day, the first known commemoration of
> this feast is to be found in the statutes of Sonnatius,
> bishop of Reims (c. 625)
>
The pope used to go to S. Maria sopra Minerva for this feast. tom izbicki
>
>
> * Margaret Clitherow, martyr (1586)
> - visitors to York can see the house in the Little Shambles
> where she lived for some time, and the dormer window at the
> Black Swan, which she hired as a mass-house; as discussed a
> few months ago, she was pressed to death
>
See the poem by G.M. Hopkins in her honor. tmi
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