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John Dillon wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 21, 2007, at 6:34 pm, John Briggs wrote:
>> John Dillon wrote:
>>>
>>> Today (21. March) is the feast day of:
>>
>> Benedict (remember him?)
>
> Certainly.  And especially on 11. July, his current feast day in the
> General Roman Calendar and in the RM, which latter (as one knows)
> furnishes the dates conventionally followed in this list's "Saints of
> the Day".

Yes, I know, but it's particularly difficult when the RM has drifted so far 
from medieval practice.  Which is why I have been giving antiphonal 
responses from the medieval calendars of Sarum, Hereford and York.  What we 
really need is a general martyrology from the end of the medieval period.

John Briggs 

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