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| Introduction | [xi] |
| A short Bibliography | [xxi] |
| I. The ‘Week’ adopted from the Jews.
The Lord’s Day: early notices. The
Sabbath (Saturday) perhaps not observed
by Christians before the fourth
century: varieties in the character of
its observance. The word feria applied
to ordinary week days: conjectures as
to its origin. Wednesdays and Fridays
observed as ‘stations,’ or days of fasting | [1] |
| II. Days of the Martyrs. Local observances
at the burial places of Martyrs. Early
Kalendars: the Bucherian; the Syrian
(Arian) Kalendar; the Kalendar of
Polemius Silvius; the Carthaginian.
The Sacramentary of Leo; the Gregorian
Sacramentary. All Saints’ Day; All
Souls’ Day. The days of Martyrs the
dominant feature in early Kalendars:
the Maccabees | [12] |
| III. Origins of the feasts of the Lord’s
Nativity and The Epiphany. Festivals
associated with the Nativity in early
Kalendars | [27] |
| IV. Other commemorations of the Lord.
The Circumcision; Passiontide, Holy
Week; mimetic character of observances.
The Ascension. The Transfiguration.
Pentecost | [37] |
| V. Festivals of the Virgin Mary. Hypapante
(the Purification), originally a
festival of the Lord. The same true of
the Annunciation. The Nativity and
the Sleep (Dormitio) of the Virgin. The
Presentation. The Conception. The epithet
‘Immaculate’ prefixed to the title
in 1854. Festivals of the Theotokos in
the East | [47] |
| VI. Festivals of Apostles, Evangelists, and
other persons named in the New Testament.
St Peter and St Paul. St Peter’s
Chair,—the Chair at Antioch. St Peter’s
Chains. St Andrew. St James the Great.
St John: St John before the Latin gate, a
Western festival. St Matthew. St Luke.
St Mark. St Philip and St James. St
Simon and St Jude. St Thomas. St
Bartholomew. St John the Baptist; his
Nativity, his Decollation. The Conversion
of St Paul. St Mary Magdalene.
St Barnabas. Eastern commemorations
of the Seventy disciples (apostles). Octaves.
Vigils | [58] |
| VII. Seasons of preparation and penitence.
Advent: varieties in its observance. Lent:
its historical development; varieties as to
its commencement and its length. Other
special times of fasting: the three fasts
known in the West as Quadragesima.
Rogation days. The Four Seasons
(Ember Days). Fasts of Eastern
Churches | [76] |
| VIII. Western Kalendars and Martyrologies:
Bede, Florus, Ado, Usuard. Old Irish
Martyrologies. Value of Kalendars towards
ascertaining the dates and origins
of liturgical manuscripts. Claves Festorum.
The modern Roman Martyrology | [93] |
| IX. Easter and the Moveable Commemorations.
Early Paschal controversies. Rule
as to the full moon after the vernal
equinox. Hippolytus and his cycle:
the so-called Cyprianic cycle; Dionysius
of Alexandria. Anatolius. The Council
of Nicaea and the Easter controversy.
Later differences between the computations
of Rome and Alexandria. Festal
(or Paschal) Letters of the Bishops of
Alexandria. Supputatio Romana. Victorius
of Aquitaine. Dionysius Exiguus.
The Nineteen-year Cycle. The Paschal
Limits. The Gregorian Reform. The
adoption of the New Style | [104] |
| X. The Kalendar of the Orthodox Church
of the East. The Menologies. I. Immoveable
Commemorations. The twelve
great primary festivals; the four great
secondary festivals. The middle class,
greater and lesser festivals. The minor
festivals, and subdivisions. Explanation
of terms used in the Greek Kalendar.
II. The Cycle of Sundays, or Dominical
Kalendar | [133] |
| Appendix I. The Paschal Question in the
Celtic Churches | [146] |
| Appendix II. Note on the Kalendars of the
separated Churches of the East | [147] |
| Appendix III. Note on the history of the Kalendar
of the Church of England
since the Reformation | [149] |