Sunday 5 July 2015

Nidaros ordo

Sunday 5 July. Fifth Sunday after Trinity. Anthem after Compline: Ave regina celorum.
Monday 6. Octave day of Ss Peter and Paul, apostles, three lessons. Sub tuum presidium.
Tuesday 7. Commemoration of Translation of St Thomas, archbishop. O florens rosa.
Wednesday 8. SAINTS OF SELJA, martyrs, major double. Rogamus te.
Thursday 9. Octave day of the Visitation of Mary, semidouble. Ave stella matutina.
Friday 10. Seven Brothers, martyrs, three lessons. Mundi domina.
Saturday 11. Translation of St Benedict, abbot, three lessons. Salve regina.

Thomas is Becket. Selja is an island off the Norwegian coast where St Sunniva, an Irish princess, and her companions were "martyred" when a cave, in which they were taking refuge from ill-intentioned heathens, collapsed. The seven brothers were sons of the Roman matron Felicity (not St Felicity); they were martyred under that tyrant and occasional writer of motivational soundbites, Marcus Aurelius.

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