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 Apaturia, meeting of the clans,
ancient Greece (Nov 3 -
5)
Athenaeus
(c. 200) mentions a decree that gave the Council of
Athens a holiday for the festival of the Apaturia:
"So that the Council might celebrate the Apaturia with the rest of the Athenians, according to the traditional ways, it has been decreed by the Council that the Councilors be dismissed for those days that the other offices have off, that is, five days starting from the day on which the Protenthae celebrate the opening feast of the
Apaturia".
The Apaturia was commemorated by all Ionian Greeks except those of Colophon and Ephesus. It was celebrated in the month of Pyanepsion (October to November) and lasted three days (our placement in the Book of Days is fairly arbitrary). The name is roughly translated as
'common relationship';
Xenophon (431 - c. 354 BCE), tells us that during the celebration, fathers and relations assembled.
Various phratries, or clans assembled to discuss their affairs during the Apaturia. The first day was called Dorpeia, as it involved the gathering of the members of the
phratria for a shared banquet (dorpon).
The second day was named Anarrhysis (pulling back). On this day, for each of the babies born during that year, or any who had not been registered, a sheep or goat was sacrificed. The father, or his proxy, had to swear that the baby was the offspring of free-born parents, who were citizens of whichever city they came from.
On the third and final day, called Cureotis, the phatores gave their votes, which they took from an altar of Zeus Phratrius
(Athena Phratria was also
honoured at this festival). It might happen that the child would be refused membership by this vote, in which case the case could be taken to a court. If the child's (or rather, parents') claim was found by the civil court to be acceptable, its name as well as that of the father, was entered into a register of the phratria, and those who had objected were liable to punishment.
Pictured
above: Zeus holding the infant Dionysus
Roman
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of many cultures in the Book of Days
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Feast day of St Acepsimas
Feast day of St Acheric
Feast day of St Alphais
Feast day of St Clydog
Feast day of St Cristiolus
Feast day of St Domnus of
Vienne
Feast day of St Elerius
Feast day of St Englatius
Feast day of St Flour (Florus),
bishop and confessor
(Primrose, Primula vulgaris, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Feast day of St Gaudiosus of
Tarazona
Feast day of St Germanus
Germanus of Auxerre (c. 378
- July 31,
448)
became bishop of Auxerre
in Gaul.
Prior to this he had also practised law and held a post of
provincial governor. He visited Britain
in 429 in
response to the growth of Pelagianism
there and the records of his visit provide valuable information on
the state of post-Roman British society. He is a saint
in both the Roman
Catholic and Orthodox
churches.
Feast day of St Guenhael
Feast day of St Hermengaudius
Feast day of St Hilary of
Viterbo
Feast day of St Hubert of
Liege
Feast day of St Ida of
Toggenburg
 Feast day of St
Malachy
O'More
(Maolmhaodhog ua Morgair; Maelmhaedhoc Ó Morgair; Maol Maedoc; Malachy O'Morgair;
1094 -
November 2,
1148),
Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland
'The Irish
Nostradamus'
In 1139, St Malachi went to visit Pope
Innocent II
in Rome and later visited St Bernard in Clairvaux in France, where he penned his
Prophecies of the Popes. He describes many popes in
'mottoes' of just a few words. Some people say that,
from Malachy's prophecies, the second pope next after Pope
John Paul II will be
Peter II
(Petrus Romanus), the pope at the end of the world. Some also say
that the penultimate pope is Pope
Benedict XVI.
In Celtic tradition, today is a day for starting new enterprises and the day the cattle are taken down from the mountains and high hills for
Winter.
Today also marks the initiation of the soul during the Winter
months which starts during Samhain (October
31) and
finishes on February
1/2,
Festival of St Brighid. St Malachy's feast is celebrated on November
3, in order not to clash with
All Souls Day.
"One of Malachy's great
claims to popular fame was his gift of prophesy. While in Rome
in 1139
he received a vision showing him all the Popes
from his day to the end of time. He wrote poetic
descriptions of each of the pontiffs,
presented the manuscript to Pope
Innocent II - and it was forgotten until 1590.
It has been in print - and hotly debated, both authenticity and
correctness - ever since. According to these prophecies, there are
only two Popes
remaining after John Paul II." Source
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Feast day of St Martin de
Porres, patron of interracial understanding
Like St
Antony of Padua [feast day June
3, qv] Martin
de Porres experienced bilocation. In 1742, the Catholic Church
announced that he had made 'impossible' appearances in China and
Japan. (Almanac of the Uncanny 1995, 209)
St Martín was
born on December
9, 1579
in Lima,
Peru and
died there in 1639. He was
beatified
in 1873 by Pope Gregory
XVI and canonised
on May 16,
1962 by
Pope John
XXIII. Martin was a friend of the saints John
de Massias and Rose
of Lima.
He was
a mulatto, having a Spanish father and Panamanian Indian
mother. He lived at Lima where he was a barber, farm labourer,
almoner and held other occupations. In the USA, he was adopted as the
patron saint of workers for interracial justice and harmony. (Almanac of the Uncanny 1995,
209)
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Feast day of St Papoul (Papulus),
priest and martyr
Feast day of Blessed Peter Francis Neron
Feast day of St Pirmin
Feast day of St Quartus
Feast day of St Rumwald
(Rumwold, Rumald; Rumbald), patron of Brackley and Buckingham, UK
St
Rumwald was the son of a king of Northumbria by a Christian daughter
of Penda, King of Mercia. Born at Sutton, England, as soon as he was
born he cried, "I am a Christian! I am a Christian!" He then
made a full confession of faith and asked to be baptized. After
Rumwald's baptism, he walked to a certain well near Brackley,
which now bears his name, and preached for three days. He then made
his will, and died, aged three days.
There
was a famous image of St Rumwald at Boxley, in Kent. It was very
small, but sometimes grew so heavy that no one could lift it; if a
woman could not lift it, it was sign that she was unchaste. (The
priests nailed it to the table on these occasions. If a woman gave
the priest a present, the conman cleric would release the statue.)
"They who have read Foxe's Martyrology, will perhaps remember that several Lollards who, to save their bodies from the stake, renounced the 'new doctrine,' were nevertheless required to walk to Buckingham, and present an offering at the shrine of St. Rumald. Now this St. Rumald, whose name is also written Rumbald, and Grumbald, was a very remarkable saint. According to Leland, who copies from a monkish life of him, he was the son of the king of Northumbria by a Christian daughter of Penda, king of Mercia. He was born at Sutton, in Northamptonshire, but not far from the town of Buckingham. Immediately he came into the world, he exclaimed: 'I am a Christian! I am a Christian! I am a Christian!' He then made a full and explicit confession of his faith; desired to be forthwith baptized; appointed his own godfathers; and chose his own name. He next directed a certain large hollow stone to be fetched for his font; and when some of his father's servants attempted to obey his orders, but found the stone far too heavy to be removed, the two priests, whom he had appointed his godfathers, went for it, and bore it to him with the greatest ease. He was baptized by Bishop Widerin, assisted by a priest named Eadwold, and immediately after the ceremony he walked to a certain well near Brackley, which now bears his name, and there preached for three successive days; after which he made his will, bequeathing his body after death to remain at Sutton for one year, at Brackley for two years, and at Buckingham ever after. This done, he instantly expired.
"After this three-days' existence, the miraculous infant was buried at Sutton by Eadwold the priest; the next year he was translated by Bishop Widerin to Brackley; and the third year after his death, his remains were carried to Buckingham, and deposited in a shrine, in an aisle of the church which after-wards bore his name. Shortly before the year 1477, Richard Fowler, Esq., chancellor to Edward IV., began to rebuild this aisle, but died before its completion. In his will, therefore, he made this bequest:
"'Item, I wolle that the aforesaid Isle of St. Rumwold, in the aforesaid church prebendal of Bucks, where my body and other of my friends lyen buried, the which isle is begonne of new to be made, be fully made and performed up perfitely in all things att my costs and charge; and in the same isle that there be made of new a toumbe or shrine for the said saint where the old is now standing, and that it be made curiously with marble in length and breadth as shall be thought by myn executors most convenient, consideration had to the rome, and upon the same tombe or shrine I will that there be sett a coffyn or a chest curiously wrought and gilte, as it appertaynith for to lay in the bones of the same saint, and this also to be dean in all -things at my cost and charge.'
"This extreme care for the relics of the infant saint clearly spews that they were held in high veneration at this period, and they continued to be the object of pilgrimages till the middle of the sixteenth century.
"There was also a famous image of St. Rumald at Bexley, in Kent. This statue or image was very small and hollow, and light, so that a child of seven years old might easily lift it, but, for some reason or other, it occasionally appeared so heavy that persons of great strength were unable to move it. 'The moving hereof,' says Fuller, 'was made the conditions of women's chastity. Such who paid the priest well, might easily remove it, whilst others might tug at it to no purpose. For this was the contrivance of the cheat—that it was fastened with a pin of wood by an invisible stander behind. Now, when such offered to take it who had been bountiful to the priest before, they bare it away with ease, which was impossible for their hands to remove who had been close-fisted in their confessions. Thus it moved more laughter than devotion, and many chaste virgins and wives went away with blushing faces, leaving (without cause) the suspicion of their wantonness in the eyes of the beholders; whilst others came off with more credit (because with more coin) though with less chastity.' Fuller concludes the Legend of St. Rumald with this remark:
"'Reader, I partly guess by my own temper how thine is affected with the reading hereof, whose soul is much divided betwixt several actions at once:—1. To frown at the impudency of the first inventors of such improbable untruths.—2. To smile at the simplicity of the believers of them.—3. To sigh at that well-intended devotion abused with them. 4. To thank God that we live in times of better and brighter knowledge.'
"A memorial of the saint is still preserved at Buckingham in the names of Well Street, and St. Ruonbald's Lane; and a well at Brackley bears his name.
"It is not unworthy of observation, that Butler, in his Lives of the Saints, gives but a brief account of Rumald; and though acquainted with Leland's account of him, passes lightly over the miraculous story, only saying: 'He died very young on the 3rd of November, &c."
Robert
Chambers,
(Ed.), The
Book of Days: A miscellany of popular antiquities in connection
with the calendar, etc,
W
& R Chambers, London, 1881 (1879
Edition is online and 1869
edition here
with CD-ROM available; See also The
English Year: A Personal Selection from Chambers' Book of
Days)
Feast day of St Valentine
Feast day of St Valentinian
Feast day of St Vulganius
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Day of St Winifred
(Winefride) of Wales
The patron of North Wales, a virgin martyr,
was the daughter of a Welsh chieftain who was instructed by St Bueno,
her uncle. When Prince Caradoc made unwanted advances to her; she
fled, but he cut off her head. Miraculously, St Bueno breathed life
into her again. She died a second time about 660.
The
miraculous healing spring of Holywell (Flintshire, UK) flowed from
where her head had come to rest; pilgrims in former days travelled
to bathe in its charmed waters.
A history
published in 1485 claimed that the waters from this saint's well
could heal both man and beast:
...
sprang up a welle of spryngyng water largely enduring unto this day,
which heleth al langours and seknesses as well in men as in bestes
...
Sacred
wells, springs and grottoes
Feast day of St Wulganus
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