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Aids for Resolving Dates

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Volume 23

Aids for Resolving Dates

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L. Easter table from 1514 to 1546.

April 16.

1525 April 16.

April 16.

April 8.

April 1.

March 23.

1527 April 21.

April 21.

April 12.

1528 April 12.

April 6.

April 4.

1529 March 28.

March 28.

April 24.

1530 April 17.

April 17.

April 8.

April 9.

March 31.

1532 March 31.

March 25.

April 20.

1533 April 13.

April 13.

April 5.

April 5.

March 27.

1535 March 28.

April 25.

The four quatember (gold fast, emergency fast).

1st Wednesday after Ash Wednesday.

2nd Wednesday after Pentecost.

3rd Wednesday after the Exaltation of the Cross (14 Sept.).

4th Wednesday after St. Lucia (Dec. 13).

b. Alphabetical list of the saints' names used in Luther's writings to determine the time.

Adelphus, August 29. Aegidius, September 1. Agapitus, August 18.

Agatha, February 5, Agnes, January 21. Albanus, June 21. Alexius, July 17. All Saints, November 1. Ambrose, April 4.

Anastasius (bishop), April 1.

Anastasius (martyr), August 21.

Andreas, November 30.

Anna, July 26.

Anthony, January 17.

Apollonia, February 9.

Apostle Theilung, July 15. Augustine, August 28.

Barbara, December 4.

Barnabas, June 11.

Bartholomew, August 24.

Benedictus, March 21.

Benno (Bishop of Meisten), June 16.

Blasius, February 3.

Bonifacius, June 5.

Briccius, November 13.

Burcardus, October 14.

Cecilia, November 22.

Calixtus, 14 October.

Catharine, November 25.

Clemens, November 23.

Colomann, October 13.

Crispinus, October 25.

Crucis exaltatio, September 14.

Cyriacus, August 8.

Cyriacus and Apollonius (martyrs), June 21.

David, December 30.

Dies incarnationis (see Annunciation).

Dimissio apostolorum (see Apostles' Theil).

Dionysius, October 9.

Donatus, August 7.

Dorothea, February 6.

Epiphany, January 6.

Egidius (see Aegidius).

Eleven Thousand Virgins, October 21.

Elizabeth, November 19.

Epimachus, May 10.

Epiphany (see Epiphany).

Erhard, January 8.

Fabian and Sebastian, January 20.

Felix (Bishop), March 28.

Felix (martyr), January 14.

Felix (Pabst), May 30.

Felix and Adauctus, August 30. Franciscus, October 4. Fratrum XII, September 1. Fratrum VII (see Seven Brothers' Day).

Gallus, 16 October.

George, April 23.

Gereon, October 10.

Gertrude, March 17.

Gervasius, June 19.

Gideon, March 28.

Gorgonius, September 9.

Gregory, March 12.

Jerome, September 30. Hilarius, February 21.

Jacobus, July 25.

Incarnationis filii Dei (see Annunciation).

Johannes ante portam latinam or Johannes latinus, May 6.

John the Baptist, June 24.

St. John's Beheading, August 29.

John evangelista, 27 December.

Virgin, the holy, to the snow, August 5.

Virgins, 11,000 (see Eleven Thousand).

Kilian, July 8.

Knoblochstag (see Pantaleon).

Cross Invention, May 3.

Cross increase, September 14.

Kunigunde, March 3.

Lambertus, September 17.

St. Laurence, August 10.

Leonhard, November 6.

Lucas, October 18.

Lucia, 13 December.

Lucius, December 3.

Marcellus, January 16.

Marcus (the Evangelist), April 25.

Marcus (the Pabst), January 18.

Marcus post Francisci, October 7.

Margaret, July 13.

Conception of the Virgin Mary (conceptionis Mariae), December 8.

Nativity of the Virgin Mary (Nativitatis), September 8.

Visitationis, July 2.

Assumptionis, August 15.

Mary Magdalene, July 22.

Assumption (that Mary vowed chastity on this day), November 21.

Purificationis (Purification of the Virgin Mary), February 2.

Annunciationis, March 25.

Mary to the Snow, August 5.

Martinus, November 11.

Martyrs, 10,000, June 22.

Matthew, September 21. Matthias, February 24. Mauritius, September 22. Maximilian (martyr), October 12.

Medardus, June 8.

Michael, September 29.

Wednesday, the crooked, is Wednesday before Easter.

Nicolaus, December 6.

Nerei et Pancratii, May 12.

Oswald, August 5.

Pancratius, May 12. Pantaleon, July 28. Paschalis - Easter Sunday. Conversion of St. Paul, January 25. Pauli Commemoration, June 30. Paul's Hermitage, Jan. 10. Peter and Paul, June 29. Celebration of St. Peter's chains (Vincula Petri), August 1.

Petri Stuhlfeler (Cathedra Petri ober Petrus papeficatus), February 22.

Philip and James, Portiuncula, Our Lady's Day to the Angels, August 2.

Praesentationis (see Sacrifice of the Virgin Mary).

Praxedes, July 21. Prisca, January 18.

Quintinus, October 31.

Remigius, October 1. Rochus, August 16.

Scholastica, February 10.

Sebastian, January 20.

Servatius, May 13.

Severinus, October 23.

Severus, October 15.

Seven Brothers Day, July 10.

Simonis and Jude, October 28.

Sixtus (martyr), August 6.

Sophia, May 15.

Stephani inventi, August 3.

Stephani translati, 7th time.

Stephen, December 26.

Thomas, December 21.

Tiburtius, April 14.

Tiburtius and Sufanna,

August 11.

Timothy, January 24.

Ulrich, July 4.

Undecim millia virginum (see Eleven thousand).

Innocent Infants, December 28.

Urban, May 25.

Ursula, October 21.

Valentine, February 14.

Valerian and Maximilian, December 15.

Valerian and Tiburtius,

April 18.

Vincentian, January 22.

Vitalis, April 28.

Vitus, June 15.

Vitus and Modestus, June 15.

Walpurgis, May 1.

Wenceslaus, September 28.