Calendar of saints
Origin and Meaning
Originally calendar of saints are part of liturgical books that specify what days and after which order is to commemorate the services of certain saint. After the variety of liturgical traditions in the different regions of the Christian Church and in the liturgical books, which are used in certain religious communities or individual monasteries, there are a multitude of saints calendars.
These are written as Sanctorale usually, these are books in addition to the calendar date and the saints also own texts (Latin proprium ) recorded the respective holy remembrance. The calendar of saints is different from the general liturgical calendar (Latin: Temporal ) also by the fact that in it (not like about the date of Easter ) the observances in principle have a firm date, so are immobile in the rule. As the calendar of saints and the Martyrology is classified, listing the saints with their memorials and information on each person.
Order of the Holy calendar in the Roman Catholic Church
Pope Pius V had 1568/1570 introduced a regulation in the train of the implementation of the reforms of the Council of Trent in the Western Catholic Church, the then - should curb sprawl in the veneration of saints - so empfundenden. Basis of which he had introduced a calendar with 158 saints festivities was the city Roman calendar. This calendar was the basis for the Latin liturgy of the Catholic Church to the reforms in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, when in 1969 the basic order of the church year and the new Roman General Calendar was introduced, and an attempt is made since then, the calendar of saints by country, cultural spaces and spiritual traditions in the church ( such as personal calendar of religious communities ) to pluralize. So there is a regional calendar of saints for the German language area, which governs the veneration of saints in the Catholic church in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg and the bishoprics of Bolzano-Bressanone.
Calendar of saints observances and festivals of the saints
The calendar of saints includes the observances of saints in the church year the Catholic Church. The date of the Holy commemoration is usually considered the death of the saint, so to speak, as a birthday in heaven; only in John the Baptist and the Blessed Mother of the calendar of saints leads to both the birth as the date of death.
Sacred Calendar is also available in the Orthodox churches, Anglicans and some Protestant churches ( Protestant name calendar). Old Ritualists within these churches typically use together with the older form of the liturgy, a correspondingly older version of the holy calendar.
The observances of the saints are, as their name day celebrated by those who were baptized in the Holy of the relevant day. Earlier, it was also customary to choose the days of the Holy Tauftages as a name; Martin Luther, for example, was baptized the day after his birth, and therefore named after Martin of Tours (November 11 ).
The peasant tradition has many of these observances - often in rhyme - associated weather rules that describe statements about the weather development and often their impact on agriculture. For example, given the Bauer rule for the St. Martin on November 11: Is Martini clear and pure, breaking the winter soon start.