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Saint John The Baptist - June 24 breski1 As the feast of Christmas christianised the celebration of the winter solstice with the theme of the “unconquered sun”, so it would seem does the feast of the …More
Saint John The Baptist - June 24
breski1 As the feast of Christmas christianised the celebration of the winter solstice with the theme of the “unconquered sun”, so it would seem does the feast of the Birth of John the Baptist – six months earlier – christianise the summer solstice celebration from traditional religions. Celtic folklore associated the themes of fire and water with this feast.
Emergence of the feast in the early 5th century
Three factors seem to have influenced the emergence of this feast in the early fifth century. The first is probably the emergence in the early fourth century of the feast of Christmas. The second is the verse of Luke gospel where the angel tells Mary at the annunciation that her “kinswoman Elizabeth already in her old age and considered barren is now in her sixth month, for nothing is impossible with God” (Lk 1:37). The third is that three authorities from the 5th and 6th centuries – St Augustine (354-430), the Martyrology of Jerome and the Calendar …More
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