TABLE OF LITURGICAL COLOURS ACCORDING TO THE ANCIENT USE OF FIVE ENGLISH DIOCESES OR CONVENTUAL CHURCHES COMPARED WITH THAT OF ROME

+============+===========+=========+=========+=========+=========+======+
Season |Westminster|Sarum |Exeter |Wells |Lichfield| Rome |
+============+===========+=========+=========+=========+=========+======+
|Advent |White |Unknown |Violet |Medius |Black |Violet|
| | |(? White)| | |(? Blue) | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Christmas |White |Mixed |White |White |White |White |
| | |colours | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|The Epiphany|White |Mixed |White |White |Red |White |
| | |colours | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Epiphany |White (to |Red |Green |Red |At will |Green |
|(Octave) to |Candlemas) | | | |of | |
|Septuagesima| | | | |Sacrist | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Septuagesima|Reddish |Red |Violet |Unknown |— |Violet|
| to Lent |(subrubeus)| | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Lent, first |Black (in |Unknown |Violet |— |Black |Violet|
|four weeks |practice, |(in | | | | |
| |White) |practice,| | | | |
| | |White) | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Lent, last |Red |Red |Violet |Red |Red |Violet|
|two weeks or| | | | | | |
|Passion-tide| | | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Easter, from|Red |White or |White |Red, Low |White |White |
|First | |Mixed | |Sunday | | |
|Evensong, on| |colours | |White | | |
|Easter Eve, | | | | | | |
|to Low | | | | | | |
|Sunday | | | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Low Sunday |Red |White |White |Red |White |White |
|to Ascension| | | | | | |
|Day | | | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Ascension |White |White or |— |White |White |White |
|Day to | |Mixed | | | | |
|Whit Sunday | |colours | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Whit Sunday |Red (or |White or |Red |Red |White |Red |
| |Saffron) |Mixed | | | | |
| |Yellow |colours | | | | |
| |(or Green) | | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Trinity |Red |Mixed |If |Red |White |White |
|Sunday | |colours |handsome,| | | |
| | | |Green, | | | |
| | | |otherwise| | | |
| | | |White | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Corpus |— |— |Red and |Red |— |White |
|Christi and | | |White | | | |
|Octave | | | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Sundays |Red |Red |Green |Red |At will |Green |
|after | | | | |of | |
|Trinity | | | | |Sacrist | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Week days |— |Unknown |— |— |— |Green |
|after | | | | | | |
|Trinity, | | | | | | |
|not being | | | | | | |
|Saints Days | | | | | | |
+============+===========+=========+=========+=========+=========+======+
|SAINTS DAYS | | | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|St. Paul |— |Red |Red or |Red |Red |White |
|(January 25)| | |Blue | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Evangelists |Red |Red |Red |Red |— |Red |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Apostles |Red |Red |Red |Red |Red |Red |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Martyrs |Red |Red |Red |Red |Red |Red |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Virgins |White |White |White |White |White |White |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Confessors |Yellow |Yellow |— |Blue and |Varius |White |
| |(or Green |(or | |Green | | |
| |and Blue) |Saffron) | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|St. John |White |White |— |Indius |Varius |White |
|Baptist | | | |(? Blue) | | |
|(June 24) | | | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|All Saints |— |Unknown |White, |White and|Varius |White |
| | | |Red, and |Red | | |
| | | |all | | | |
| | | |colours | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|St. Michael |White |White |White |White and|White |White |
|and |or Blue | | |Indius | | |
|All Angels | | | |(? Blue) | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|St. John |White |White |White |— |White |White |
|Evangelist | | | | | | |
+------------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------+
|Holy |Violet |Unknown |— |Red |— |Violet|
|Innocents | | | | | | |
+============+===========+=========+=========+=========+=========+======+
|Festivals of|White |White |White |White |White |White |
|the Blessed | | | | | | |
|Virgin Mary | | | | | | |
+============+===========+=========+=========+=========+=========+======+
|Dedication |— |White or |All |Blue and |— |White |
|of Churches | |Mixed |colours |White | | |
| | |colours | | | | |
+============+===========+=========+=========+=========+=========+======+
|Burial |Black |Black |Black |Black |Black |Black |
+============+===========+=========+=========+=========+=========+======+

Wherever Black was ordered, Violet, Purple, Dark Blue, and Ash-colour, or Grey, seem to have been considered equivalent. So Green also replaced Yellow.

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