I'm aware about different colours
>for different parts of the liturgical year, and indeed the
>vestments are mostly listed in the inventories in
>colour groups relating to the liturgical year beginning with
>white: but was the use of certain colours for certain
>periods/feasts rigidly, and universally, defined and
>followed?
I would have thought not. So far as I know, the present Roman colour-scheme
is post-medieval. It certainly differs from the 'English' scheme, which
consists mainly of different shades of red. See the article "Colours,
liturgical" in the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church":
"A sequence of colours at different seasons of the ecclesiastical year for
vestments and other liturgical objects is first found in the use of the
Augustinian Canons at Jerusalem at the beginning of the 12th cent. They are
mentioned by Pope Innocent III is his De Sacro Altaris Mysterio. But it is
not until much more recent times that a standard sequence in general use in
the W. Church became established . . ."
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