Chapter II: The Saints’ Days

1. THE ORIGINS OF THE CULTUS OF THE SAINTS AND THE GROUNDS
ON WHICH IT RESTS 203

2. THE FESTIVALS OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST AND ST STEPHEN THE
PROTO-MARTYR 217

3. FESTIVALS OF OUR BLESSED LADY IN GENERAL 225

4. THE THREE ANCIENT FESTIVALS OF OUR BLESSED LADY—THE
NATIVITY, THE ANNUNCIATION, THE ASSUMPTION 230

5. INSTITUTION AND SPREAD OF THE FESTIVAL OF THE IMMACULATE
CONCEPTION 239

6. THE LESSER FEASTS OF OUR LADY—
i. The Name of Mary 264
ii. The Presentation of Our Lady in the Temple 265
iii. The Visitation 266
iv. The Feast of the Holy Rosary 268

7. THE FEAST OF ST JOSEPH. THE CULTUS OF SS. JOACHIM AND ANNE 272

8. THE FESTIVALS OF THE APOSTLES IN GENERAL 277

9. THE FESTIVALS OF THE APOSTLES AND EVANGELISTS IN PARTICULAR 282
i. St Peter and St Paul 282
ii. The Feast of St Peter’s Chains 287
iii. The Conversion of St Paul 288
iv. St Andrew and St Luke the Evangelist 289
v. St James the Great 291
vi. St Philip and St James the Less 293
vii. St John 296
viii. St Simon and St Jude (Thaddeus) 298
ix. St Mark the Evangelist 300
x. The Feast of St Peter’s Chair 301

10. THE FESTIVALS OF ST MARY MAGDALEN, ST CECILIA, AND ST
CATHERINE—
i. St Mary Magdalen 309
ii. St Cecilia 315
iii. St Catherine 321

11. THE FESTIVAL OF ALL SAINTS 323

12. THE COMMEMORATION OF ALL SOULS 326

13. THE FESTIVALS OF THE ANGELS 328

14. THE TWO FESTIVALS IN HONOUR OF THE HOLY CROSS 333