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—