INDEX

[See also Table of Contents, p. vii.]

• Abyssinian Kalendar, see Kalendar
• Ado, martyrology of xvi, 93, 94
• Advent, observance of 76 ff.
• Agnes, St, octave of 20, 71
• Akathist, sabbath of 144
• Alexandria, church of, its authority in settling date of Easter 121
• All Saints (Allhallen), festival of 23, 149;
• Sunday of 91, 141;
• vigil of 75
• All Souls’ Day xiii, 24
• Ambrosian rite 77
• anarguroi, see Unmercenary
• Anatolius, Paschal cycle of 115
• Andrew, St, commemoration of 17, 19, 22, 63 f., 137;
• octave of 71;
• relation of Advent to festival of 79
• Anna, St, conception of, see Mary, festivals of
• Annunciation, see Mary, festivals of
• Antipasch 141, 142
• Antiphons, in Advent 78 f.
• Apocreos, Sunday of 84, 141, 143;
• Sabbath of 144
• Apodosis 71, 135
• Apostles, commemoration of 22, 58 ff.;
• Fast of the 90 f.;
• Synaxis of the Twelve 58, 139;
• Seventy 70, 138, 139
• Apostolic Canons 6, 111
• Apostolic Constitutions 6, 111
• Aratschavor-atz 92
• Armenians, their observance of Epiphany and Christmas 32, 38;
• rules of fasting 78, 91 f.;
• Kalendar of 36, 43, 147 f.
• Artziburion 92
• Ascension, commemoration of 18, 42 f., 135, 149
• Ascetics, Sabbath of 144
• Ash Wednesday 82, 83 f.
• Asiatics, commemoration of the Pascha by 106 ff.
• Assumption, see Mary, festivals of
• Baptism, of Christ, commemoration of 30, 31 n., 32, 139 f.
• Barnabas, St, commemoration of 70, 150
• Baronius, Cardinal 103
• Bartholomew, St, commemoration of 68
• Basilian Menology, see Menology
• Basilidians, festival of Baptism of Christ kept by 31
• Becket, Thomas, institution of festival of Trinity by 46;
• feasts of his martyrdom and translation 150
• Bede, martyrology of xvi, 23, 49, 62, 69, 70, 93, 94
• Borromeo, Charles 83
• Candlemas, meaning of 48;
• festival of, see Purification
• caput jejunii 83
• Cara cognatio, pagan solemnity of 61
• Celtic churches, Paschal cycle of 122, 146
• Charlemagne, Capitula of 86
• Christmas, see Nativity
• Circumcision, feast of 22 f., 37 ff., 135, 147
• claves quadragesimae, Paschae, Rogationum 102
• Clavius, see Schlüssel
• Coena Domini 40
• Conception, see Mary, feasts of
• Constantine, letter of, on Paschal question 111 f., 117 ff.
• Coptic Kalendar, see Kalendar
• Corbie Kalendar 71
• Corpus Christi, feast of xiv, 98;
• octave of 72
• Cross, Holy, adoration of 41 f.;
• Sunday of Adoration of 141;
• Exaltation of 22, 99, 135, 142, (a fast in Eastern Church) 91;
• Invention of 99;
• Procession of 25
• Cyprian, St, Paschal cycle attributed to 115;
• commemoration of, in English Prayer Book 152
• Dead, Sabbath of 144
• Decollation, see John Baptist
• depositiones, of martyrs and bishops 14, 16, 17
• dies caniculares 101
• dies profestus 74, 87
• Dionysius of Alexandria, Paschal cycle of 115
• Dionysius Exiguus, Paschal cycle of 123, 124 f.
• dominica carnisprivii, see Apocreos
• dominica in albis 142
• Dominical Kalendar, of Orthodox Eastern Church 140 ff.
• Dormitio, see Mary, feasts of
• Doxology, the great and the little 137
• Easter, regulations for date of 15, 111 f., 122 ff.
• See also Pascha, Paschal cycle etc.; octave of 71, 72
• Edward, St, the Confessor, feast and translation of 99
• Egbert, Abp, Pontifical of 69
• Elias of Nisibis 113
• Ember Days, meaning of term 90.
• See Fasts
• English Prayer Book, see Prayer Book
• Enurchus, St 151
• Epiphany, feast of 17, 20, 23, 30 f., 135, 139;
• octave of 71, 72, 135
• Ethiopic Kalendar, see Kalendar
• Evangelists, commemoration of 65 ff.
• Fasts, in Advent 78;
• before Easter (Lent) 79 ff.;
• after Pentecost 85, 92, 147;
• Rogation days 86;
• of four seasons (Ember Days) 18 f., 87 ff.;
• of vigils 74 f.;
• of Eastern Church 90 f.;
• of Nineveh 91 f., 147
• feria, meaning of term 8
• festa chori, festa fori xix
• Festal Letters, see Paschal Epistles
• Festivals, rank and dignity of 98 f.
• Florus, martyrology of xvi, 93, 94
• Friday, Christian observance of 10 f.;
• fast in Advent 78;
• a fast in Eastern Church 91, 140;
• commemoration of Saints among East Syrians on 147
• Gabriel, archangel, Synaxis of 139, 140
• Galesini, Pietro, martyrology of 103
• gang-days 87
• Gelasian Sacramentary, see Sacramentary
• Gellonense, see Martyrologies
• George, St, commemoration of 21, 23, 136, 149
• Good Friday 41 f., 107
• Gorman, martyrology of 95
• Gothic Missal 65
• Gregorian reform, see Kalendar
• Gregory the Great 77, 82
• Gregory XIII, Pope, his scheme for a fixed Easter xviii;
• appoints a commission to revive Martyrology 103;
• his reform of Kalendar 127 ff.
• Hieromartyr 138
• Hippolytus, Paschal Tables of 111, 112 ff.;
• statue of 112
• Holy Thursday, see Ascension
• Holy Week, observance of 40 ff.
• Horologium 103
• Hosiomartyr 138
• Hypapante, see Purification
• Immaculate Conception, see Mary, feasts of
• Innocent III, Pope, rules of, concerning vigils 74 f.
• Innocents, Holy, commemoration of 17, 19, 22, 33 ff.
• Irenaeus, letter of, to Victor of Rome 79, 110
• Irish canons, collection of 85 f.
• Isapostolos 138
• James, St, son of Zebedee, commemoration of 17, 34, 36, 64 f.
• James, St, the Lord’s brother, commemoration of 34, 36, 67.
• See also Philip and James
• James and John, SS., commemoration of 16, 33 f., 65
• January, Kalends of, observed as a fast 38 f.
• Jerome, see Martyrologies (Hieronymian)
• John Baptist, St, commemoration of 17, 18, 21, 34;
• Conception of 53, 139;
• Nativity of 18, 68, 135, 139, 149;
• Decollation of 18, 69, 135, 139, (a fast) 91;
• Synaxis of 139, 140;
• East Syrian commemoration of 148;
• vigil of Nativity of 75
• John, St, the Evangelist, commemoration of 17, 19, 22, 33 f., 65, 75, 136;
• before the Latin Gate 21, 66;
• Migration (or Assumption) of 34, 65, 136
• Jude, St (Thaddaeus), commemorated in Greek Church 67
• Kalendar, causes of growth of xii f., 95 ff.;
• antiquarian notices in 100, 102;
• artificial construction of xii;
• astronomical notes in 101;
• influences affecting 97 f.;
• marks of antiquity in 13;
• value of, for study of MSS 95 f.;
• Gregorian reform of 125 ff.;
• Bucherian (Liberian, or Philocalian) 14, 28, 31, 38, 59, 63 n.;
• Carthaginian 16, 31, 34, 38, 63 n.;
• of Polemius Silvius, 16, 63 n.;
• Abyssinian 148;
• Armenian 147;
• Coptic 148;
• East Syrian 147;
• of English Prayer Books 149 ff.;
• Ethiopic 148;
• Mozarabic 36;
• of Orthodox Eastern Church 133 ff.
• See also Martyrologies, Sacramentary
• Kings, the Three, Translation of 97, 100
• Kollyba, Sabbath of 144
• Koryphaeoi 135
• Lawrence, St, octave of 71;
• vigil of 75
• Lazarus, Sabbath of 135, 144
• Lent, observance of 79 ff., 141 ff.
• Leo, St, correspondence of, on Paschal limits 120 f., 124;
• Sacramentary of, see Sacramentary
• Leofric Missal 69, 97
• Lights, Feast of (Epiphany) 30 f., 142
• Lilio, Luigi, reformation of Kalendar by 127
• Litanies, origin of 86 f.;
• at Rome 67
• Lord, festivals of the, xii, 27 ff.
• Lord’s Day, Christian observance of xi, 3 f., 5, 6, 7, 10, 37;
• vigil preceding 73.
• See also Dominical Kalendar
• Luke, St, commemoration of 17, 66
• Lupercalia, heathen festival of 48
• Maccabees, commemoration of 16, 17, 25 f.
• Mamertus, bishop of Vienne, rogations appointed by 86
• Margaret, Queen of Scotland 83
• Mark, St, commemoration of 66 f.
• Martyrologies, use of term 93 f.;
• influence on later Kalendars 94;
• marks of antiquity in 13;
• Bucherian (Liberian or Philocalian) 14;
• Carthaginian 16 f.;
• Syrian 15, 65;
• Gellonense 62, 70;
• Hieronymian 34, 63, 65, 66, 69, 70;
• modern Roman 103.
• See also Ado, Bede, Florus, Usuard, and Kalendar
• Martyrs, days of, observed locally xi, 12 ff., (at cemeteries) 24;
• Acts of, read in churches 17;
• oblations offered for 14
• Mary, St, the Virgin (Theotokos), feasts of xv, 47 ff., 148;
• Annunciation of 21, 49 f., 57, 135, 140, 147;
• Assumption (dormitio, Repose) of 22, 51, 57, 75, 135, (fast before) 75, 90;
• Conception of xiv f., 52 ff., 57, 98;
• Immaculate Conception of 52 ff.;
• Nativity of 22, 50, 51 n., 57, 135, 140;
• Presentation of 51, 57, 135;
• Synaxis of Theotokos 57, 139, 140.
• See also Purification
• Mary Magdalene, St, commemoration of 69 f.;
• the ‘myrrh-bearer’ 69;
• in English Prayer Book 70, 150, 151
• Matthew. St, commemoration of 66
• Matthias, St, commemoration of, in English Prayer Book 150
• Maundy Thursday (dies mandati), observance of 40 f.;
• meaning of term 41 n.
• Maurolico, Francesco, martyrology of 103
• Melito, Bp of Sardis, defence of Asiatic Paschal observance by 108 f.
• Menology, character of early Eastern 133;
• of Constantinople 133;
• Basilian 30, 133
• Michael, St, Synaxis of 137, 139;
• monthly commemoration of, by Ethiopic Church 148
• missa ad prohibendum ab idolis 39
• Montanists, celebration of Pascha by 28 f.
• Mozarabic rite 77, 83
• Myrrh-bearers, Sunday of 141, 142.
• See also Mary Magdalene
• natale, dies natalis, natalitia 13, 15, 67
• natale Calicis 15, 40
• natale Petri de Cathedra, see Peter, St
• natalis Solis Invicti 30
• Nativity, of the Lord (Christmas), feast of 15, 17, 19, 22, 27 f., 49, 76, 135, 140, 147, 148;
• origin of feast of 29 f.;
• octave of 71, 72;
• fast before 90;
• vigil of 75
• Nicaea, Council of, decisions of, on Paschal question 116 f.;
• commemoration of the 318 fathers of 141, 143
• Octaves, meaning of term 70 f.;
• history of 71
• Oengus, the Culdee, martyrology of 95
• Old Testament worthies, commemoration of xii, 134, 136, 148
• Orthodoxy Sunday xiii, 141, 142
• O sapientia 78 f.
• Palm Sunday (Feast of Palms) 40, 84, 135, 141
• Parasceve 10, 11, 37, 144 f.
• Pascha, original use of term 104 ff.;
• Christian commemoration of xi, 37, 104 ff.;
• dies Paschae 40
• Paschal Cycles, of Hippolytus 111, 112 ff.;
• of Dionysius Al. 115;
• of Anatolius 115;
• Roman 123;
• Alexandrine 123;
• of Victorius 124;
• of Dionysius Exiguus 123, 124 f.
• Paschal Epistles xviii, 121
• Paschal limits 120 f.
• Paschal question xvii, 105 ff.
• Paschal Tables, see Paschal Cycles
• Passiontide, observance of 40 ff.
• Paul, St, commemoration of 21, 33;
• Conversion of 69;
• Translation of 69.
• See also Peter and Paul
• Pentecost, meaning of term 43 ff.;
• observance of 18, 37, 43 ff., 135, 141;
• octave of 71, 72;
• vigil of 75
• Peter, St, commemoration of 33;
• Chains of (ad Vincula) 21, 25, 63;
• Chair of (Cathedra Petri) 15, 59, 60 ff.;
• Dedication of Basilica of 18, 63
• Peter and Paul, SS., commemoration of 16, 18, 21, 34, 35, 135;
• depositio of 16;
• origin of festival of xiii, 59 f.;
• fast before 90;
• octave of 71
• Philip, the deacon 67
• Philip, St, feast of 67, 78;
• fast of 78
• Philip and James, SS., commemoration of 21, 67, 75
• Pliny, letter of, to Trajan 72
• Polycarp, St, conference of, with Anicetus on Paschal question 108
• Polycrates, letter of, on Paschal controversy 109
• Polyeleos 136
• Pontius Pilate, commemorated by Ethiopians 148
• Prayer Book, American 43, 153;
• English (1549, 1552) 70, 101, 150, (1559) 101, 150, (1604) 151, (1662) 79, 151;
• Irish 153;
• Latin (1560) 150;
• Scottish (1637) 79, 153
• Preces Privatae (1564) 151
• Pre-sanctified, Mass of 42
• Presentation, of the Lord in Temple 48, 147.
• See also Purification; of St Mary, see Mary, feasts of
• Primer, of Edward VI 101
• Prodromos 138
• proheortia 43, 135
• Protevangelium Jacobi 50 n., 52 n., 53 n.
• Purification (Hypapante, Candlemas), feast of 20, 23, 47 ff., 51 n., 57, 101, 135, 140, 149
• Quadragesima, ante Pascha (Lent) 80 f., 85;
• of St Martin 77, 85;
• after Pentecost 85;
• before St John Baptist 85 f.
• See also Fasts
• Quartodecimans 107
• Quinquagesima 84
• Rabanus Maurus, martyrology of 69, 95
• Relics, translation of, as affecting Kalendars 97
• Requiem masses, prohibited within certain octaves, 72
• Rogation Days, origin of 86 f.
• Roman Breviary and Missal 63, 71
• Roman Kalendar 52
• Sabbath, see Saturday
• Sacramentary, Gallican 77;
• Gothic-Gallican 77;
• Gelasian 20, 39, 58, 64, 66, 68;
• Gregorian 20 f., 33, 39, 49, 66, 68, 69, 83;
• Leonine 18 f., 42, 58, 64, 66, 68, 88 f.
• Samaria, woman of (Photina), commemorated xii, 141
• Sarum, Breviary 32, 51, 52;
• Enchiridion 51 f.;
• Missal 32, 51
• Saturday (or Sabbath), Christian observance of 2, 4 ff.;
• special observances of, in Greek Church 144;
• Great Sabbath 6, 40, 144
• Schlüssel, Christopher, reformation of Kalendar by 127
• Seventy Apostles (disciples) 70, 138, 139
• Sexagesima 84
• Silvia, Pilgrimage of xvi, 27, 40, 42, 48, 72, 73, 82
• Simon and Jude, SS., commemoration of, 67
• Simon Zelotes, St, commemorated in Greek Church 67
• Station (statio) 11
• Stephen, St, commemoration of 16, 17, 18 n., 22, 33, 34
• Style, New, history of adoption of 130 ff.
• Sunday, see Lord’s Day
• supputatio Romana 123
• Synaxis, use of term in Eastern Kalendars 139
• Syrians, East, Kalendar of 147 f.
• Tessarakoste, use of term 80, 90 f.
• Thaddaeus, see Jude
• thaumaturgos 138
• Theodore, of Canterbury, Paenitentiale of 85
• Theodore Tyro, St, 144
• Theometor, Theopator, 139
• Theophany, see Epiphany
• theophorus 137
• Theotokos, see Mary, feasts of
• Thomas, St, commemoration of 67 f.
• Three hundred and eighteen, see Nicaea
• Transfiguration, commemoration of 43, 135
• Trinity Sunday, observance of 45 f.
• Tyrinis or Tyrophagus (Sunday) 84, 141, 143
• Unmercenary saints 139
• Usuard, martyrology of xvi, 49, 62, 67, 93, 94, 95
• Victor, Bp of Rome, attitude of, on Paschal question 109 f.
• Victorius of Aquitaine, Paschal cycle of 124
• Vigils, origin of 72 ff.;
• rules for 74 f.;
• at Ember seasons 88
• Votive masses, prohibited within certain octaves 72
• Wednesday, observance of 10 f.;
• fast in Advent 78;
• a fast in Eastern Church 91, 140
• Week, Jewish and Christian 2;
• first day of, see Lord’s Day;
• Great, see Holy Week
• Weigel, Erhard, Kalendar of 131
• Ximenes, Cardinal 83
• ἀνάληψις 42
• μεταμόρφωσις 43
• παρασκευή 10
• πάσχα ἀναστάσιμον 119
• πάσχα σταυρώσιμον 119
• πεντηκοστάριον 143
• τεσσαρακοστή 80
• τεσσαρεσκαιδεκατῖται 107
• τριῴδιον 143