tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post62251186305980118..comments2024-03-27T17:29:51.954+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Our Lady of OseneyFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-14096157305559678572009-09-12T14:41:23.025+01:002009-09-12T14:41:23.025+01:00Is it too politically incorrect in the increasingl...Is it too politically incorrect in the increasingly Muslim UK to recall that the September 12 Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary was extended to the entire Western Church in thanksgiving for the defeat of "the Turks" at the gates of Vienna on this date in 1683?<br /><br />The Polish king Sobieski had invoked Our Lady's intercession.<br /><br />The Polish Pope John Paul II restored Jeremy Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03621686904194671435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-11294117107919568862009-09-12T08:50:33.866+01:002009-09-12T08:50:33.866+01:00Like Michael and David I had never heard of Crouch...Like Michael and David I had never heard of Crouchmas before, Father. So I googled it.<br /><br />There was a reference to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (of which I have a facsimile of the 1894 edition).<br /><br />The entry for Crouchmas implies that it is a season 'from the Invention of the Cross to St Helen's day (May 3rd to August 18th)'<br /><br />Then it says that johnfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16233791349837340770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-73806044667393969312009-09-12T05:43:02.959+01:002009-09-12T05:43:02.959+01:00I was going to ask about Crouchmas as well, Father...I was going to ask about Crouchmas as well, Father. Michael McDonaugh beat me to it. <br /><br />Have you any idea how it is that some feasts, led by Christmas, acquired the "mas" suffix? Aside from Christmas I know of Childermas, Candlemas, Michaelmas, Hallowmas, Martinmas and now Crouchmas. Yet the list of feasts lacking this term is considerably longer.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352598115559204014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-22870972925339793322009-09-11T13:14:30.588+01:002009-09-11T13:14:30.588+01:00"Crouchmas".
Never heard the term befor..."Crouchmas".<br /><br />Never heard the term before, but would that be derived from "Crucis-mass"?<br />BTW, I love these old names for feasts.Michael McDonoughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384055883425252489noreply@blogger.com