Heortology
Subtitle: a history of the Christian festivals from their origin to the present day
By: by Dr. K.A. Heinrich Kellner ...Tr. with the author's permission from the second German edition by a priest of the diocese of Westminster.
Series: The international Catholic library, vol. xiv
Publisher: Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
Published: 1908
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: Fasts and feasts.; Church year.
Notes: "Books quoted and referred to": p. ix-xiii.
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: PART I; title: THE CHURCH'S FESTIVALS IN GENERAL; title: 1. Introduction 1; title: 2. Sunday and its Observation as a Day of Rest 6; title: 3. The Classification of Festivals 13; title: 4. The Gradual Increase of Festivals. Their Decrease In The Last Three Centuries. The Present Position 16; title: CHAPTER I.— THE CHURCH'S YEAR; title: A. Easter, and the Sacred Seasons connected; title: 1. Easter, its Name and History 37; title: 2. The Connection of the Christian Festival with The Jewish 42; title: 3. The Circumstances which led to Easter Being a Movable Feast 46; title: 4. The Final Settlement Of The Date Of Easter, And The Attempts Made To Commemorate The Day Of The Month On Which Christ Died 52; title: 5. The Liturgical Celebration of Holy Week and Easter 59; title: Palm Sunday 66; title: Maundy Thursday 69; title: Good Friday 73; title: Holy Saturday 79; title: Easter and the Easter Octave 84; title: PART II; title: Easter; title: 6. The Preparation for Easter — Quadragesimia and The Fast 88; title: 7. The Season of Preparation as an Integral Part Of The Church's Year 100; title: 8. The Transfiguration 105; title: 9. The Ascension 106; title: 10. Whitsunday 109; title: 11. Trinity Sunday 116; title: 12. Corpus Christi. The Forty Hours' Prayer. The Festival of the Sacred Heart 119; title: B. CHRISTMAS AND THE CHRISTMAS SEASON; title: 1. Christmas 127; title: 2. Advent and the Sundays until Septuagesima  158; title: 3. The Octave of Christmas. The Circumcision. The New Year 163; title: 4. The Epiphany 166; title: 5. The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Candlemas) 173; title: 6. The Sundays of the Chubch's Yeab as fobbong Connecting Links between the Pbincipal Feasts 176; title: C. Other Incidents in the Church's Year; title: 1. The Embertides 183; title: 2. Litanies or Rogations 189; title: 3. The Dedication of a Church and the Festival of the Patron Saint 194; title: CHAPTER II.— THE SAINTS' DAYS; title: 1. The Origins of the Cultus of the Saints and the Grounds on which it bests 203; title: 2. The Festivals Of St John THE Baptist AND St Stephen The Proto-Martyr 217; title: 3. Festivals of Our Blessed Lady in Genebal 225; title: 4. The Three Ancient Festivals of oub Blessed Lady— the Nativity, the Annunciation, the Assumption 230; title: 5. Institution and Spread of the Festival of the Immaculate Conception 239; title: 6. The Lesser Feasts of Our Lady—; title: i. The Name of Mary 264; title: ii. The Presentation of Our Lady in the Temple 265; title: iii The Fudtation 266; title: iv. The Feast of the Holy Bosary 268; title: 7. The Feast of St Joseph. The Cultus of SS. Joachim And Anne 272; title: 8. The Festivals of the Apostles in General . 277; title: 9. The Festivals of the Apostles and Evangelists in Particular 282; title: I. St Peter and St Paul 282; title: II. The Feast of St Peter's Chains  287; title: III. The Conversion of St Paul 288; title: IV. St Andrew and St Luke the Evangelist 289; title: V. St James the Great 291; title: VI. St Philip and St James the Less  293; title: VII. St John 296; title: VIII. St Simon and St Jude (Thaddeus) 298; title: IX. St Mark the Evangelist 300; title: X. The Feast of St Peter's Chair 301; title: 10. The Festivals of St Mary Magdalen, St Cecilia, And St Catherine —; title: I. St Mary Magdalen 309; title: II St Cecilia 315; title: III. St Catherine 321; title: 11. The Festival of All Saints  323; title: 12. The Commemoration of All Souls 326; title: 13. The Festivals of the Angels 328; title: 14. The Two Festivals in Honour of the Holy Cross 333; title: THE MATERIAL UPON WHICH THE HISTORY OF THE ECCLESLiSTICAL YEAR IS BASED; title: 1. The Documentary Sources in General 342; title: 2. The Earliest Christian Calendars 347; title: 3. The Asian Calendar of the Fourth Century 363; title: 4. The So-called Martyrologium Hieronymianum 368; title: 5. The Lectionary and Martyrology of Silos 378; title: 6. Egyptian (Coptic) Calendars and Synaxaria 381; title: 7. The Menology of Constantinople 387; title: 8. The Menology of the Emperor Basil II., and the Syrian Lectionary of the Eleventh Century 390; title: 9. The Kalendarium Marmoreum of Naples  394; title: 10. Western Authorities prom the Sixth to the Eighth Centuries 396; title: 11. The Martyrologies of Bede, Florus, Wandelbert, And Aengus 401; title: 12. The Martyrologies of Ado, Usuardus, Rabanus Maurus, and Notker Balbulus 409; title: 13. Important Calendars prom the Eighth to the Eleventh Centuries 410; title: Conclusion 419; title: I. Classification of Feasts in the Roman Calendar 421; title: II. On some Lists of Festivals 421; title: II. The Festivals of Obligation as observed in Different Countries  423; title: IV. Liturgical Vestments 430; title: V. The Word Mass as a Name for the Sacrifice of THE Altar; title: VI. On the Date for Christmas in Hippolytus 437; title: VII. Christmas in England during the Commonwealth 439; title: VIII. Excursus on the Three Holy Kings 442; title: IX. The Greek Ecclesiastical Tear 445; title: X. English Writers and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception 447; title: XI. Excursus on the so-called Typica Chronological Table 449; title: Index 457; title: APPENDIX